News about Sophie Kinsella

The Confessions of a Shopaholic author, 54, whose real name is Madeleine Sophie Wickham, broke the news in April that she received the devastating diagnosis of glioblastoma in 2022. Sophie appeared on Lorraine on Thursday to promote her new book What Does It Feel Like - which is semi-autobiographical as it explores her battle with cancer. During the interview, the mother-of-five made the heartbreaking admission that she lost her memory after undergoing a gruelling eight-hour surgery to remove the brain tumour. 'He (her husband Henry) had to tell me more than once, over and over, this bad news "You've got cancer and it's incurable",' she said. 'I don't know how he did it. I think that's where he showed his greatest love for me.'

The writer, 54, from London, shared the devastating news that she had been diagnosed with grade four glioblastoma, a 'form of aggressive brain cancer,' back in April. Now, she has spoken in detail about the way the disease has affected her during an extremely honest new interview with ABC News' Robin Roberts, and she admitted that it's severely impacted her memory. She also detailed the scary change that happened to her body that first alerted her that she was sick.

The 54-year-old Confessions of a Shopaholic writer shared the devastating news in a post on X. 'To my dear readers and followers, I've wanted for a long time to share with you a health update and I've been waiting for the strength to do so,' the Londoner wrote today. Kinsella, whose real name is Madeleine Sophie Wickham, then posted a statement outlining her condition. 'At the end of 2022, I was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a form of aggressive brain cancer,' she said.

SARAH OLIVER: When a crisis in the Middle East exploded, my first son was just a few months old. The call came from the news desk: did I want to go, since I was the foreign correspondent? Despite the dopamine rush of the call and the unshakeable love I have for newspapers, my answer was no. I didn't want to leave my son when they arrived. Well, maybe not. He's almost 18 years old, on the verge of flying the nest for university, but our parting will be determined by his terms, not mine.

I don't think of myself as a critical individual. I actually don't think so.

Sophie Kinsella got the reading bug as a child when she discovered a copy of Charlie and the Chocolate factory in her Christmas stocking. She was so engrossed in Roald Dahl's book that she skipped all of the festivities.