She Was Diagnosed With Brain Cancer, Then Wrote a Rom-Com About It NYT | Top Stories By: Elisabeth Egan 4 October 2024 at 04:09 Sophie Kinsella, the author of “Confessions of a Shopaholic,” packs love, laughter and a harrowing real-life health ordeal into a 133-page novella. © Sandra Mickiewicz for The New York TimesAt an event in London in June, Sophie Kinsella said, “I’m so overwhelmed, yet again, by my lovely readers and by the lovely response that I get to what I do. It surprises me every time.”