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Sophie Kinsella, 1969-2025

Madeleine Wickham, best known to millions of readers and fans as Sophie Kinsella, died aged 55 on 10 December 2025 after a courageous battle with brain cancer. You can read Sophie’s obituary on the Penguin books website here.  

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To my dear readers, 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. At the end of 2022 I was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a form of aggressive brain cancer. I did not share this before because I wanted to make sure […]

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