Sophie Kinsella was best known for which run of books?
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The Shopaholic novels made her name and account for most of the fifty million copies she sold.
What is the name of the heroine of that series?
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Becky Bloomwood is a financial journalist who cannot stop spending, which is the joke the whole series runs on.
Which actress played that character in the 2009 film?
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Isla Fisher played Becky Bloomwood in the Touchstone adaptation.
Sophie Kinsella was a pen name. What was the author’s real name?
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She was born Madeleine Sophie Townley and wrote her first seven novels as Madeleine Wickham.
Which country was Kinsella from?
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She was English, born in London and resident there for most of her working life.
Roughly how many copies of her books have been sold?
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More than fifty million copies have been sold, across both her names.
What was the first Shopaholic novel called?
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The first book appeared in 2000 and was published in America as Confessions of a Shopaholic.
What was Kinsella’s job before she wrote fiction?
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She wrote about money for a living before she wrote comic novels about it.
In which year was the Confessions of a Shopaholic film released?
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The film came out in 2009, nine years after the first novel.
The Shopaholic series ran to how many novels?
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Ten Shopaholic novels appeared between 2000 and 2019.
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