Best-selling author Sophie Kinsella diagnosed with 'aggressive' brain cancer

Best-selling British author Sophie Kinsella has been diagnosed with an "aggressive" form of brain cancer.

Kinsella, 54, said she was diagnosed with glioblastoma at the end of 2022 and chose to keep the news private at first to "make sure my children were able to hear and process the news in privacy and adapt to our new normal."

"I have been under the care of the excellent team at University College Hospital in London and have had successful surgery and subsequent radiotherapy and chemotherapy, which is still ongoing," she told her followers on Instagram.

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"At the moment all is stable and I am feeling generally very well, though I get very tired and my memory is even worse than it was before!"

Kinsella said she is "so grateful to my family and close friends who have been an incredible support to me, and to the wonderful doctors and nurses who have treated me."

She also thanked her readers for their "constant support."

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Kinsella said her most recent release, The Burnout, released in October 2023, "really buoyed me up during a difficult time."

She ended her statement by saying: "To everyone who is suffering from cancer in any form I send love and best wishes, as well as to those who support them.

"It can feel very lonely and scary to have a tough diagnosis, and the support and care of those around you means more than words can say."

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Kinsella began her career at the age of 24 with her first novel The Tennis Party, published under her real name Madeleine Sophie Wickham.

She said she changed to here pen name Sophie Kinsella ahead of the Shopaholic series because "I knew I wanted to write it in a different style" and "didn't want to confuse my existing readers, so I decided to take a pseudonym and keep it totally separate."

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The Shopaholic series became a juggernaut, selling over 45 million copies across 60 countries.

The first in the series was made into a movie Confessions of a Shopaholic released in 2009 and starring Australian actor Isla Fisher.

Kinsella has written 32 novels.

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