Sophie Kinsella

Sophie Kinsella
Kinsella in 2009
Born
Madeleine Sophie Townley

(1969-12-12)12 December 1969
Roehampton, London, England
Died10 December 2025(2025-12-10) (aged 55)
Dorset, England
OccupationNovelist
Period1991–2025
GenreRomantic comedy
Notable worksThe Shopaholic series
Spouse
Henry Wickham
(m. 1991)
Children5
Website
sophiekinsella.co.uk

Madeleine Sophie Wickham (née Townley; 12 December 1969 – 10 December 2025), known by her pen name Sophie Kinsella, was an English author. She is especially known for her best-selling Shopaholic series of novels. By the time of her death, her books had sold over 50 million copies in more than 60 countries and had been translated into over 40 languages. The first two novels in her Shopaholic series, The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic (2000) and Shopaholic Abroad (2001), were adapted into the film Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009). Her 2003 standalone novel Can You Keep a Secret? was adapted into a film of the same name in 2019.