She went on to publish six more novels as Madeleine Wickham: A Desirable Residence (1996), Swimming Pool Sunday (1997), The Gatecrasher (1998), The Wedding Girl (1999), Cocktails for Three (2000), and Sleeping Arrangements (2001). The Tennis Party (1995) was immediately hailed as a success by critics and the public alike and became a top ten bestseller. While working as a financial journalist, at the age of 24, she wrote her first novel. She then worked as a financial journalist (including for Pensions World) before turning to fiction. She studied music at New College, Oxford, but after a year switched to Politics, Philosophy and Economics. She did her schooling in Putney High School and Sherborne School for Girls. Madeleine Sophie Wickham (born Madeleine Sophie Townley) is an English author of chick lit who is most known for her work under the pen name Sophie Kinsella.

Education-B.A., Oxford University, M.Mus., King's College,.

Her 'confessions' are the perfect pick-me-up when life is hanging in the (bank) balance. Becky's hilarious schemes to pay back her debts are as endearing as they are desperate.

Sophie Kinsella has brilliantly tapped into our collective consumer conscience to deliver a novel of our times-and a heroine who grows stronger every time she weakens. just a little something.įinally a story arises that Becky actually cares about, and her front-page article catalyzes a chain of events that will transform her life-and the lives of those around her-forever. Becky's only consolation is to buy herself something.

And lately Becky's been chased by dismal letters from the bank-letters with large red sums she can't bear to read-and they're getting ever harder to ignore. Her job writing at Successful Savings not only bores her to tears, it doesn't pay much at all. The only trouble is that she can't actually afford it-not any of it.

Meet Becky Bloomwood, America’s favorite shopaholic-a young woman with a big heart, big dreams…and just one little weakness.īecky has a fabulous flat in London's trendiest neighborhood, a troupe of glamorous socialite friends, and a closet brimming with the season's must-haves. Millions of readers have come to adore New York Times best-selling author Sophie Kinsella’s irrepressible heroine.

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