Madeleine Wickham is a bestselling British author under her pseudonym, Sophie Kinsella. Educated at New College, Oxford, she worked as a financial journalist before turning to fiction. She is best known for writing a popular series of chick-lit novels. The books follows her life from when her credit card debt first become overwhelming, The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic to the latest book on being married and having a child, Shopaholic & Baby.