Confessions of a Shopaholic author Sophie Kinsella, 54, undergoing treatment for brain cancer

[Anonymous]

Here is a great article about her.

https://people.com/sophie-kinsella-dead-confessions-of-a-shopaholic-author-8672384

She was my favorite author. I liked her standalone books more than the Shopaholic series (but I did love several of the series, esp. Shopaholic gets married). I recommend reading "What does it feel like?" if you have not read it yet. It is short, but it took me several days to read it because of Eve's illness.

Gosh, this one is hard.

[Anonymous]

So sad. I am one of the posters in the monthly chat in the past two years that read Sophie Kinsella’s books during a hard time in my life (after being inspired by the poster that wanted to read Sophie’s books). Truly a loss of someone funny, warm, and FUN.

[Anonymous]

Yeah she was a wonderful human being. So sad for her family.

[Anonymous]

She brought so much joy to so many people. Once, I started reading “I’ve Got Your Number” one evening after the kids (tweens) were in bed and I laughed so much that the next day I restarted the book so I could share it with them (editing a few more mature parts, here and there). We joked about that book for years.

My favorites were:
I’ve Got Your Number
Can You Keep a Secret?
The Undomesticated Goddess

[Anonymous]

So so sad. I have read all of her books. Perfect rom-coms, delightful. 😞

[Anonymous]

I mean this kindly... how can one screen for this? it is terrifying

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean this kindly... how can one screen for this? it is terrifying

You cannot. It's a rare kind of brain tumor, fast growing, fast affecting. If you have double vision / blurred vision / dizziness / stroke like symptoms, loss of balance, numbness and tingling - these are all potential symptoms (its going to depend on where the tumor is located, which functions it will interfere with) you see your doctor and they send you for an MRI / CT scan and it will show up pretty fast.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is a great article about her.

https://people.com/sophie-kinsella-dead-confessions-of-a-shopaholic-author-8672384

She was my favorite author. I liked her standalone books more than the Shopaholic series (but I did love several of the series, esp. Shopaholic gets married). I recommend reading "What does it feel like?" if you have not read it yet. It is short, but it took me several days to read it because of Eve's illness.

Gosh, this one is hard.

It really is. Loved "What Does It Feel Like?" too. I was cautiously optimistic that she would beat it bc I saw a picture of her a few months ago and she looked radiant and healthy. Cancer is the worst.

[Anonymous]

Oh - I had no idea. So sad and tragic. I am so sorry for her family’s loss.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here is a great article about her.

https://people.com/sophie-kinsella-dead-confessions-of-a-shopaholic-author-8672384

She was my favorite author. I liked her standalone books more than the Shopaholic series (but I did love several of the series, esp. Shopaholic gets married). I recommend reading "What does it feel like?" if you have not read it yet. It is short, but it took me several days to read it because of Eve's illness.

Gosh, this one is hard.

It really is. Loved "What Does It Feel Like?" too. I was cautiously optimistic that she would beat it bc I saw a picture of her a few months ago and she looked radiant and healthy. Cancer is the worst.

The diagnosis was always "terminal". And you don't beat that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean this kindly... how can one screen for this? it is terrifying

I had a family member who died of this earlier this year and basically, even if they catch it as early as possible it pretty much always comes back. My family member did surgery and had almost all off of the tumor removed, did chemo and radiation and the tumor just grew rapidly anyway. They had been completely healthy before the diagnosis and then were just gone in a few months. Even people who have the tumor totally removed almost always have it come back.

It's a horrible horrible disease. Even young adults and children get it sometimes.

The biggest promise is in those immunotherapy and mRNA treatments but they're still in their infancy. Unfortunately research in the US was hurt but there's still good work going on in Australia. It wasn't able to save my family member but I have hope that maybe one day there might actually be something to be done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I mean this kindly... how can one screen for this? it is terrifying

I had a family member who died of this earlier this year and basically, even if they catch it as early as possible it pretty much always comes back. My family member did surgery and had almost all off of the tumor removed, did chemo and radiation and the tumor just grew rapidly anyway. They had been completely healthy before the diagnosis and then were just gone in a few months. Even people who have the tumor totally removed almost always have it come back.

It's a horrible horrible disease. Even young adults and children get it sometimes.

The biggest promise is in those immunotherapy and mRNA treatments but they're still in their infancy. Unfortunately research in the US was hurt but there's still good work going on in Australia. It wasn't able to save my family member but I have hope that maybe one day there might actually be something to be done.

The best surgeons are in the US. Henry Brem at Hopkins in Baltimore, in particular.

[Anonymous]

I love Sophie Kinsella and have been reading her books for 20 years. She was such a ray of sunshine and a source of a lot of family jokes because my mom and sister loved her too. This hit me harder than I expected. I feel for her kids, especially her young teens. RIP Sophie.