Madeleine Wickham

Infobox Writer


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pseudonym = Sophie Kinsella
birthdate = December 12, 1969
birthplace = London
occupation = novelist
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period = 1995 - Present
genre = Chick-lit
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website = http://www.sophiekinsella.com/

Madeleine Wickham (nee Townley), under her own name and the pseudonym, Sophie Kinsella, is a bestselling British author.

Educated at Putney High School and New College, Oxford, she worked as a financial journalist before turning to fiction. She is best known for writing the Shopaholic novels series of chick-lit novels, which focus on the misadventures of Becky Bloomwood, a financial journalist who cannot manage her own finances. The books follow her life from when her credit card debt first becomes overwhelming ("Confessions of a Shopaholic") to the latest book on being married and having a child ("Shopaholic & Baby"). Throughout the entire series, her obsession with shopping and its resulting complications for her life is a central theme.

The first Shopaholic book (Confessions of a Shopaholic (film)) is scheduled to be released as a Disney film in 2009, with Isla Fisher playing Becky and Hugh Dancy as Luke Brandon. The film will be set in New York, rather than London, where the book is set.

Sophie lives in Hertfordshire with her husband, Henry Wickham, a headmaster of a boys' prep school. They have been married for 17 years and they have 3 sons, Freddy 11, Hugo 9 and Oscar 2.

Her latest novel under the name Sophie Kinsella will be published in 2009 and is set to be called 'Twenties Girl'

Bibliography

As Sophie Kinsella

Shopaholic

* "The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic" (also titled "Confessions of a Shopaholic") (2000)
* "Shopaholic Abroad" (also titled "Shopaholic Takes Manhattan") (2001)
* "Shopaholic Ties the Knot" (2001)
* "Shopaholic and Sister" (2004)
* "Shopaholic and Baby" (2007)

Other

* "Girls Night In" (2004) (An omnibus of novels, along with "many more fabulous authors" including Meg Cabot and Jennifer Weiner)
* "Can You Keep a Secret?" (2004)
* "The Undomestic Goddess" (2005)
* "Remember Me?" (2008)
* "Twenties Girl" (2009)

As Madeleine Wickham

* "The Tennis Party" (1995)
* "A Desirable Residence" (1996)
* "Swimming Pool Sunday" (1997)
* "The Gatecrasher" (1998)
* "The Wedding Girl" (1999)
* "Cocktails for Three" (2000)
* "Sleeping Arrangements" (2001)

External links

* [http://www.sophiekinsella.com/ Sophie Kinsella Official website]
* [http://www.randomhouse.com.au/Authors/Default.aspx?Page=Author&ID=Kinsella,%20Sophie Sophie Kinsella at Random House Australia]