Sophie Kinsella, author of the best-selling 'Shopaholic' novels, dies at 55

Sophie Kinsella, the writer of "Confessions of a Shopaholic" and a bid of millions-selling sequels died Monday, her household said. She was 55 and had been diagnosed with encephalon cancer.

The household said successful a connection connected Kinsella's Instagram account: "We are heartbroken to denote the passing this greeting of our beloved Sophie (aka Maddy, aka Mummy). She died peacefully, with her last days filled with her existent loves: household and euphony and warmth and Christmas and joy.

"We can't ideate what beingness volition beryllium similar without her radiance and emotion of life."

Kinsella, who besides published nether her existent name, Madeleine Wickham, announced successful April 2024 that she had been diagnosed successful precocious 2022 with glioblastoma, an assertive signifier of encephalon cancer.

"I did not stock this earlier due to the fact that I wanted to marque definite that my children were capable to perceive and process the quality successful privateness and accommodate to our 'new normal,'" she said astatine the time.

Starting successful 2000 with "The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic," (titled "Confessions of a Shopaholic" successful the United States), astir a fiscal writer who writes astir wealth matters but fails miserably astatine managing her own, Kinsella published 10 "Shopaholic" novels, on with different fiction. Her books person sold much than 45 cardinal copies worldwide and person been translated into dozens of languages.

The archetypal 2 "Shopaholic" books were adapted into the 2009 movie "Confessions of a Shopaholic," starring Isla Fisher.