In 2000, the English writer Madeleine Sophie Wickham, who also wrote novels with names like The Tennis Party and Cocktails for Three, published her first book under the moniker Sophie Kinsella: The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic. In 2001, the book was released in the U.S. as Confessions of a Shopaholic. Shopaholic was a bestseller on both sides of the pond, and Kinsella became queen of what was then the relatively newly coined yet age-old genre of chick lit.
