Neda Ulabi

Confessions of a Shopaholic was made into a movie in 2009.

The main character at first prefers shopping to men.

The writer, whose real name was Madeline Wickham, was educated at Oxford University.

She worked for a while as a finance reporter.

She was interested in and concerned about young women's relationships with money as well as the opposite sex.

Kinsella was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer in 2022.

She was 55 years old.

Netta Ulibi, NPR News.