She has been fighting the disease for a year and a half. Sophie Kinsella, known for being the bestselling author of the “Shopaholic” series of novels, has announced that she has brain cancer, reports the BBC.
It was on her social networks and her website that the 54-year-old novelist confided that she had been suffering from glioblastoma, a particularly aggressive malignant brain tumor, since the end of 2022. Since the diagnosis, the novelist declared that she had received “excellent care”, mentioning an operation, radiotherapy as well as chemotherapy, which is still ongoing.
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Published by Sophie Kinsella on Wednesday April 17, 2024
“In late 2022, I was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a form of aggressive brain cancer. "I didn't share this before because I wanted to make sure my children were able to learn and handle the news confidentially and adjust to our new normal," the London mother of five wrote children.
Madeleine Sophie Wickham, her real name, said that she was in a stable condition and that she feels "generally very well", but that she is often very tired before ironically about her memory, which she considers “even worse than before”.
45 million novels sold worldwide
“I am so grateful to my family and close friends who have given me incredible support, and to the wonderful doctors and nurses who treated me. » The trained journalist concluded her message by thanking her family, close friends, doctors and nurses, before sending “love and best wishes to all those suffering from cancer. »
Her latest book, “The Burnout,” was published last October when she was already battling the disease. Sophie Kinsella is especially famous for her series of novels “The Shopaholic” (
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Shopaholic in original version), the first two of which were adapted for the cinema in 2009, through the film “Confessions of a Shopaholic », with Isla Fisher and Hugh Dancy.
In total, Sophie Kinsella's novels, some of which were published under the name Madeleine Wickham, have sold more than 45 million copies in more than 60 countries, and have been translated into more than 40 languages.