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       ‘Shopaholic’ author Sophie Kinsella reveals brain cancer diagnosis
       
       By Amarachi Orie, CNN
       
       Updated: 
       
       7:44 AM EDT, Thu April 18, 2024
       
       Source: CNN
       
       Sophie Kinsella, the best-selling author behind the “Shopaholic”
       book series, has revealed that she is receiving treatment for brain .
       
       “I’ve wanted for a long time to share with you a health update and
       I’ve been waiting for the strength to do so,” she wrote in an on
       Wednesday.
       
       “At the end of 2022 I was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a form of
       aggressive brain cancer. I did not share this before because I wanted
       to make sure that my children were able to hear and process the news in
       privacy and adapt to our ‘new normal,’” she continued.
       
       Glioblastomas are a fast-growing type of brain tumor and the most
       common type of cancerous (malignant) brain tumor in adults, according
       to charity .
       
       Kinsella, who lives in the United Kingdom with her husband and
       children, said she is under the care of an “excellent team” at a
       London hospital, and has had “successful surgery and subsequent
       radiotherapy and chemotherapy, which is still ongoing.”
       
       “At the moment all is stable and I am feeling generally very well,
       though I get very tired and my memory is even worse than it was
       before,” she added.
       
       The author, who also goes by the name Madeleine Wickham, has sold more
       than 45 million copies of her books, which have been translated into
       more than 40 languages, in more than 60 countries, according to her .
       
       Her “Shopaholic” protagonist, Becky Bloomwood, a shopping-loving
       financial journalist who is hopeless with money, made it to the big
       screen in a 2009 movie adaptation “Confessions of a Shopaholic.”
       She was portrayed by Australian actress 
       
       “Sending you so much love and healing energy,” Fisher commented
       under Kinsella’s Instagram post.
       
       “I am so grateful to my family and close friends who have been an
       incredible support to me, and to the wonderful doctors and nurses who
       have treated me,” Kinsella added in her post.
       
       “I am also so grateful to my readers for your constant support. The
       wonderful response to The Burnout has really buoyed me up, during a
       difficult time,” she continued.
       
       Kinsella’s latest book, romantic comedy “The Burnout,” was
       released in October.
       
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