Tributes paid to ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ author Sophie Kinsella after death from cancer

Moving tributes have been paid to “once-in-a-lifetime” Shopaholic author Sophie Kinsella, who died aged 55.

Madeleine Sophie Wickham, who wrote under the pen name Sophie Kinsella, announced in April 2024 that she had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer in 2022.