Sophie Kinsella: shopping - a healer from the spleen

Her positive works with a living syllable are easy to read and save from depression. Someone will call them "easy reading", but is it bad that literature causes a smile?

Fame

Born in 1969, Madeleine Wickham worked for a long time as a journalist in various financial journals, but she understood that she was not doing her own business. Soon she throws to write boring articles and proceeds to literary creation. At 24, she prints her first novel. But her famous series was made about a girl-shopaholic, who was called the most gay saga of the present century. Novels are issued under the pseudonym Sophie Kinsella, and under this name is still created by a London writer.

The best-selling books about Becky Bloomwood are extremely popular in our country. The story of an unreasonably wasting her money and doing ridiculous things to a girl is a story about the writer herself, who went to buy a pack of coffee, and came back with a pair of three new shoes.

The story of the main character is a kind of running around: she spends a lot of money on unnecessary clothes and cosmetics, and then forgets about the impressive expenses. Sophie Kinsella found the strength to admit that she often looks at the thing and does not remember why she bought it. "I'm buying gifts for Christmas, and when they fall out of the closet, I find that one person has bought 3 gifts."

Sophie Kinsella: bibliography. The saga of a shopaholic

"The secret world of a shopaholic" is the first novel about a cheerful and charming journalist, whose serious financial problems do not prevent spending the last money on another unnecessary blouse. But the girl works as a serious financial journalist, giving advice to readers how to properly manage cash flows. The writer told me that she also spent her money thoughtlessly, and when she heard about the minus on the map her legs gave way. Sophie Kinsella saw in her addiction a comedic potential and scooped up ideas from life.

Becky's ridiculous spender is often lying, but her lies are like the child's imagination, and it's impossible not to love the heroine. It differs from prim and closed Englishmen, the reader is attracted to the open heart and naivety of a girl falling into comical and ridiculous situations.

In the second book, The Shopaholic in Manhattan, the journalist is deprived of her favorite work, and her addiction to uncontrolled purchases ruins her personal life. But friends help get out of a difficult situation. "Shopaholic and Marriage Ties" continues the story of his favorite medicine for boredom and stress - shopping trips.

The fourth book "Shopaholic and Sister" Sophie Kinsella tells of a new relative of Becky - its complete opposite. Скупердяйка does not like supermarkets and calls thoughtless waste of money the most awful vice. Readers will learn how to cope with difficulties finding a way out of the most difficult situations Becky.

The birth of a child - what can be more important? Possessed by spending Rebecca buys expensive darlings, branded things for the baby, and in the life of her husband appears a beautiful girlfriend. The pregnant heroine will come out victorious from any fights with rivals in the book "Shopaholic and baby".

The economic crisis makes it take an oath to the husband not to spend several months, but Becky breaks down, and again everything goes not according to the plan in the "Minishopagolik". In the penultimate novel "Shopaholic and the Stars", the heroine is in Hollywood, and her husband is promoting the most famous actress Becky wants to be friends with. But our desires often do not coincide with tough reality.

In 2015, the novel Shopaholic on Honeymoon, in which Rebecca dreams of a honeymoon, but her husband is building other plans.

From book to film

Cute brunette Sophie Kinsella, whose photo can be seen in various fashion magazines, in 2009, co-produced a film shot on the first book of the saga of Becky-Shopaholic. In the cheerful comedy, the main role went to the famous actress A. Fisher, who embodied on the screen a charming spender.

As the writer confessed after the release of the film, Ayla magnificently conveyed the qualities of Becky. "All her thoughts are reflected on her face. And the viewer sees exactly what is happening in her head. To convincingly play, you have to be funny, and Ayla - really funny. "

The soul of a shopaholic

By the way, in the book the reader will not find a description of how the heroine looks. This is done with the intent that everyone finds a soul in it. After all, the main thing is not the appearance, but the inner world. The writer knows her heroine and looks at the world with her eyes. When Sophie was asked what she had in common with Becky, she replied that when they go to supermarkets, they think alike, and the thoughts of buying at a discount are always in the writer's head.

Quotes

A merry comedy has succeeded in adopting the easy style of Sophie Kinsell's narrative. Quotations from the movie are becoming popular, and even those who did not read the fascinating book knew memorable phrases by heart.

"There is nothing stronger than a fastening pulse, than a signboard with the inscription" 50% discount ".

"If all the talk could be washed, what a simple life became."

"Shopping is the best healer from despondency."

"Depression disappeared if everyone dressed in new things."

Easy syllable and positive

In the character who so recklessly spends the last money on shopping, many will recognize themselves. Hence the worldwide recognition of the writer Sophie Kinsella. Readers' comments about her works are exceptionally positive. The writer is loved for easy syllables without tedious descriptions, and the events she develops are kept in suspense until the end, because no one knows what the book will end. Positive stories, seasoned with funny adventures and ridiculous adventures, will suit for a pleasant pastime.