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Remembering Sophie Kinsella (1969–2025)

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We are heartbroken to announce the passing this morning of our beloved Sophie (aka Maddy, aka Mummy). She died peacefully, with her final days filled with her true loves: family and music and warmth and Christmas and joy.

We can’t imagine what life will be like without her radiance and love of life. Despite her illness, which she bore with unimaginable courage, Sophie counted herself truly blessed – to have such wonderful family and friends, and to have had the extraordinary success of her writing career. She took nothing for granted and was forever grateful for the love she received.

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Kinsella's Family
Book cover: "The Undomestic Goddess" by Sophie Kinsella with a red handbag filled with domestic items.

The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella

After making a mistake that will ruin a chance of a partnership, attorney Samantha Sweeting suffers a breakdown, gets on a train, and ends up in the middle of nowhere, where she is mistakenly hired as a housekeeper.

Book cover for "What Does It Feel Like?" by Sophie Kinsella, featuring a woman in a flowing green dress.

What Does it Feel Like? by Sophie Kinsella

Eve is a successful novelist who wakes up one day in a hospital bed with no memory of how she got there. Her husband, never far from her side, explains that she has had an operation to remove the large, malignant tumor growing in her brain. As Eve learns to walk, talk, and write again—and as she wrestles with her diagnosis, and how and when to explain it to her beloved children—she begins to recall what’s most important to her.
Book cover of "Finding Audrey" by Sophie Kinsella, featuring an illustration of a girl with sunglasses.

Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella

Audrey has developed an anxiety disorder but she sees a therapist and is making slow but steady progress. She meets Linus, her brother’s teammate and finds she can talk through her fears with him in a way she’s never been able to do with anyone before.

Illustration of a woman and man in separate windows, a dog jumping, and the title "Love Your Life" by Sophie Kinsella.

Love Your Life by Sophie Kinsella

Discarding her dating app to enjoy a post-breakup anonymous writers’ retreat in coastal Italy, Ava shares an idyllic love affair with a fellow romantic before their return to London forces them to acknowledge their true identities.

Book cover for "I've Got Your Number" by Sophie Kinsella, showing silhouettes with phones and a London skyline.

I’ve Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella

After her phone is stolen during a hotel fire drill, Poppy Wyatt, discovering an abandoned phone in a trash can, crashes into the life of the phone’s owner, Sam Roxton, when she uses his phone to make her wedding preparations.

Blue shopping bag with charms, book title "Confessions of a Shopaholic" by Sophie Kinsella on pink background.

Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

Financial journalist Rebecca Bloomwood seeks solace from the boredom and pressures in life with her shopping, a solution that brings her close to financial disaster, until she encounters a story that will change her life.
A woman paints “I Owe You One” on a white background with blue city outlines; book by Sophie Kinsella.

I Owe You One by Sophie Kinsella

Struggling to hold her late father’s business together in spite of her less-motivated siblings, Fixie Farr cashes in an IOU from a handsome stranger to find employment for her childhood crush.
Book cover of "Remember Me?" by Sophie Kinsella, featuring a large yellow sunflower on a bright red background.

Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella

Awakening in the hospital after a car crash believing that she is a single, twenty-five-year-old sales associate, Lexi discovers that she has lost three years in her life and she is married to a handsome millionaire, but her perfect new life soon begins to go awry.

Book cover of "Wedding Night" by Sophie Kinsella, showing a silhouetted couple holding hands and Greek columns.

Wedding Night by Sophie Kinsella

Tiring of commitment-phobic boyfriends, Lottie readily accepts her ex’s offer of marriage in fulfillment of a safety pact made years earlier that they would marry if they were still single in their thirties, a rushed arrangement that prompts family disapproval and an unexpected renewal of passion.

Book cover of "Surprise Me" by Sophie Kinsella, with hearts bursting from a pink gift box on a blue background.

Surprise Me by Sophie Kinsella

When they learn they will live another sixty-eight years together, Sylvie and Dan plan to create little surprises for each other to keep their relationship fresh, but a scandal from the past reveals how little they truly know about one another.

Pink book cover of "Can You Keep a Secret?" by Sophie Kinsella with a door hanger illustration.

Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella

After the worst day of her life, Emma Corrigan spills her darkest secrets to a stranger on an airplane, but when he re-emerges in her life, she will have to face the things she said to him, and her growing feelings for him.

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