'Shopaholic' author Sophie Kinsella reveals she is battling aggressive brain cancer

English writer Sophie Kinsella has revealed that she is battling an aggressive form of brain cancer. In a social media post shared yesterday, Kinsella said she was diagnosed with glioblastoma at the end of 2022. The 54-year-old novelist behind the beloved “Shopaholic” series said she has had a successful surgery and is currently undergoing radiotherapy and chemotherapy treatments.

Glioblastoma is a type of malignant brain tumour that generally carries a poor prognosis, with a median survival time of around 12 to 15 months and a tendency to recur.

“I did not share this before because I wanted to make sure that my children were able to hear and process the news in privacy and adapt to our 'new normal,'” Kinsella said in the post. The author has five children with her husband Henry Wickham.
Sophie Kinsella, whose real name is Madeleine Wickham, told her followers that she is
“feeling generally very well.”

“At the moment all is stable and lam feeling generally very well, though I get very tired and my memory is even worse than it was before!” she wrote.

Kinsella also thanked her medical team at University College Hospital in London, her “wonderful doctors and nurses” as well as her family and close friends. “I am also so grateful to my readers for your constant support. The wonderful response to The Burnout has really buoyed me up, during a difficult time,” she said, referring to her latest novel.