Confessions of a Shopaholic author Sophie Kinsella reveals battle with brain cancer since 2022 [Video]

The novelist was diagnosed with glioblastoma at the end of 2022.

Sophie Kinsella, the pen name of Madeline Sophie Wickman, has revealed she’s been battling brain cancer since 2022.

Author of the bestselling Confessions of a Shopaholic series, Kinsella announced her diagnosis on her website and social media, noting that she was “stable” and “feeling generally very well.”

“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,” Kinsella wrote. “At the end of 2022 I was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a form of aggressive brain cancer,” the novelist wrote. “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.’”

The author has undergone “successful surgery and subsequent radiotherapy and chemotherapy, which is still ongoing.”

She added, “At the moment all is stable and I am …