“When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't write the autobiographical first novel. I was so, so determined not to write about a 24-year-old journalist. It was going to have male characters, and middle-aged people, so I could say, 'Look, I'm not just writing about my life, I'm a real author.'”

English author

Sophie Kinsella is the pen name of Madeleine Sophie Wickham, an English author. She is best known for the Shopaholic series of novels, which made her a widely recognized bestselling writer. The series began with The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic in 2000 and continued with Shopaholic Abroad in 2001. The first two books were later adapted into the 2009 film Confessions of a Shopaholic.