Her lighthearted writing style won fans for its humour and relatability, giving an insight into the romances, careers and financial concerns of young women.<\/p>\n
Kinsella preferred the terms \u201cromantic comedy\u201d or \u201cwit lit\u201d over \u201cchick lit\u201d to describe her work.<\/p>\n
The first two books from her Shopaholic series were adapted for the 2009 romantic comedy film Confessions of a Shopaholic starring Isla Fisher.<\/p>\n
They tell the stories of Becky Bloomwood, a financial journalist who is a serial shopper and hopeless when it comes to her own finances.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was really excited, it felt like a new voice,\u201d Kinsella said of penning the series in 2000.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought it was my side project. But having discovered comedy, it\u2019s addictive,\u201d she told The Times newspaper in 2024.<\/p>\n
\u2018Unmatched wit\u2019 <\/p>\n
Born on December 12, 1969 in London, Kinsella had five children with her husband, Henry Wickham, who she met as a student at the University of Oxford.<\/p>\n
Kinsella wrote her first novel The Tennis Party aged 24 under her birth name, while working as a financial journalist.<\/p>\n
In 2019, her novel Can You Keep a Secret was adapted into another romantic comedy starring Alexandra Daddario.<\/p>\n
Her agents at The Soho Agency, Araminta Whitley and Marina de Pass, said, \u201cMaddy was a once-in-a-lifetime author and friend\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaddy was an intelligent, imaginative, loving and irreverent woman who valued the deeply connective power of fiction.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe also had an unmatched wit and ability to find the funny side.\u201d <\/p>\n
Her latest novels were The Burnout (2023) and What Does it Feel Like? (2024).<\/p>\n
The latter is a semi-fictional account of her cancer journey which made it on to several bestseller lists.<\/p>\n
In an introduction to the book, Kinsella said she had \u201calways processed my life through writing\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cHiding behind my fictional characters, I have always turned my own life into a narrative. It is my version of therapy, maybe.\u201d<\/p>\n
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