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Sophie Kinsella Quiz: Medium Challenge

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At which Oxford college did Kinsella study?

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She was at New College, where she also met the man she married.

Which subject did she take her Oxford degree in?

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She graduated in politics, philosophy and economics, having started on a different course.

What was her first novel, published under her own name?

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The Tennis Party came out when she was twenty-five, the first of seven novels as Madeleine Wickham.

How many novels did she publish as Madeleine Wickham?

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Seven Madeleine Wickham novels preceded the first Shopaholic book.

How did Kinsella first submit the Shopaholic manuscript?

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She sent it to her own publisher under a made-up name to see whether it would be bought on its merits.

Which British publisher brought out the Kinsella novels?

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Transworld, part of Penguin Random House, has published her for her whole Kinsella career.

Who produced the 2009 film of Confessions of a Shopaholic?

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Jerry Bruckheimer produced it for Touchstone, with Disney distributing.

Kinsella’s books have been translated into roughly how many languages?

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Her work has appeared in more than forty languages and over sixty countries.

Which of her novels was filmed in 2019?

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Can You Keep a Secret? reached the screen in 2019, a decade after the Shopaholic film.

Whom did Kinsella marry in 1991?

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She married Henry Wickham, whom she met at Oxford, and took his surname.

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