Sophie Kinsella
Author of My (not so) Perfect Life
Sophie Kinsella was born in London. She studied music at Oxford, but after a year switched to politics, philosophy and economics. Kinsella wrote her first novel, The Tennis Party, under her real name, Madeleine Wickham, at age 24 while working as a financial journalist. She went on to publish six more novels as Madeleine Wickham.
Sophie Kinsella hit the bestseller list in 2000 with her first novel in the Shopaholic series, Confessions of a Shopaholic. The book’s heroine, Becky Bloomwood – a fun and feisty financial journalist who loves shopping and is hopeless with money – captured the hearts of readers worldwide. Becky has since featured in seven more bestselling books and came to the big screen in 2009 in the movie Confessions of a Shopaholic, starring Isla Fisher and Hugh Dancy. “Seeing Becky come to life in a movie was something I dreamed about ever since I wrote the first book,” Kinsella says. “The movie was exciting – it had exactly the right tone to it, and it had the spirit of the books, recognisable moments and scenes and characters and everything that readers love and that I love.”
Kinsella has also written six stand-alone novels, plus a young adult novel, Finding Audrey. She lives in London with her husband and family.