Sophie Kinsella, ‘Confessions of a Shopaholic’ Author, Dies at 55

Writing under a pseudonym, Madeleine Wickham cultivated an international following for her series centered on a young woman addicted to shopping.The British author Madeleine Wickham in 2024. Under the pen name Sophie Kinsella, she wrote nine “Shopaholic” novels, which sold tens of millions of copies and were translated into dozens of languages.