Sophie Kinsella
Born in Roehampton on 12 December 1969, Madeleine Sophie Wickham grew up in the United Kingdom and was educated at Putney High School, Sherborne School for Girls, St Mary's School, and New College. She worked across several fields during her life, serving variously as a journalist, a teacher, and a musician before establishing herself as a novelist writing under the pen name Sophie Kinsella.
Writing in English, Kinsella produced fiction across several genres, including chick lit, romance, and children's literature. Among her notable works are Shopaholic and Shopaholic Abroad, as well as Can You Keep a Secret?, Remember Me?, Twenties Girl, and I've Got Your Number. The breadth of titles across these genres reflects a career that moved between comic romantic fiction and other narrative forms, with her pen name becoming the name under which her novels reached readers.
She died on 10 December 2025 in Dorset.
Quotes by Sophie Kinsella
Sophie Kinsella's insights on:
I think a lot of people still fantasize about that first love and what might happen if they rekindled the relationship.
You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back. You might as well wish the sky were red.
My eyes are automatically flicking into all the shop windows as I pass, checking out the displays - and suddenly I stop in my tracks.
It's not enough to believe! Don't you see that, you stupid girl? You could spend your whole life hoping and believing! If a love affair is one sided, then it's only ever a question, never an answer. You can't live your life waiting for an answer.
There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.
When I shop, the world gets better, and the world is better, but then it's not, and I need to do it again.
