Tributes were paid to the 55-year-old writer who was best known for her Shopaholic series.

Bestselling author Sophie Kinsella has died after being diagnosed with a form of aggressive brain cancer.

Tributes were paid to the 55-year-old, who was best known for her Shopaholic series, with a statement from her family saying she “died peacefully, with her final days filled with her true loves: family and music and warmth and Christmas and joy”.

Madeleine Sophie Wickham, who wrote under the pen name Sophie Kinsella, announced in April last year that she had been diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer, in 2022.

The Instagram statement from her family added: “We can’t imagine what life will be like without her radiance and love of life.

“Despite her illness, which she

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