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We apologize, but this video has failed to load. One month before lockdown, the author known as Sophie Kinsella was speaking at a luncheon for fans at an Italian restaurant. During the question-and-answer portion, one participant raised her hand and asked if Kinsella would ever consider trying a genre other than romantic comedy.

Kinsella—Oxford University graduate, mother of five, one-time beleaguered financial journalist—has been writing romantic comedies for over two decades. Her books have twice been adapted into sparkling, high-budget Hollywood movies. A third movie is in development at Amazon, set to star Dakota Fanning, with a screenplay by one of the writers of Legally Blonde. Over 45 million copies of Sophie Kinsella novels have been sold. And every one of them has a happy ending. For every person who stood up at the fan luncheon, ready to throw profiteroles and prosecco at the mention of tragedy, Kinsella is right there with them.

Kinsella is not her characters, but they share some commonalities. What is wrong with that? I could have thought: 'Oh no, financial crisis, run away, this is all a bit serious and scary and nasty. I felt like this is what this character is all about, and I should write about it.

There is a sort of gallows humour. We are a nation of shoppers, and I think you have to go with that. I think it was always a mix of funny and painful. Part of the joke about Bloomwood is that, despite being clueless with money, she is a financial journalist — as was Kinsella before becoming a novelist.

Not only did Kinsella have the haziest grasp of finance — "People used to ask me for advice, and I'd say, 'Please, don't ask me! I didn't really have a game plan. And then it just hit me that actually, I want to make it up. It was reading paperbacks on the way to work, thinking that's what I want to do.

I was so, so determined not to write about a year-old journalist. It was going to have male characters, and middle-aged people, so I could say, look, I'm not just writing about my life, I'm a real author. And if it fails, that's OK. Didn't she analyse the bestseller list and conclude that chick lit was the only way to make big money? My secret fear was that nobody would get this at all, and it would be really embarrassing.

That's why I didn't go to my publishers and pitch it. The idea of sitting down in their office and saying, 'I'd like to write about a girl with an overdraft who likes shopping and gets letters from her bank manager,' well it just sounded nuts.

But I could just see it going on all around me; we all talked about shopping, we went shopping, the store card thing was massive, and I could see the hypocrisy of taking out the credit card, then being shouted at for not paying it off. And nobody had done it. I thought, wait a minute, shopping has become the national pastime, and nobody has written about it. It felt very much like an experimental project. She submitted her first Sophie Kinsella manuscript, The Dreamworld of a Shopaholic, to her publishers without telling them it was actually by Madeleine Wickham.

It was not just a hit but a sensation. To her credit, the success of three further Shopaholic books didn't deter Kinsella from then writing standalone novels, in between further Shopaholic instalments. Her latest, I've Got Your Number, is another outside of the series, but its plot — about a young woman who finds a mobile phone and becomes entangled in its previous owner's life — reflects the author's same sharp eye for the zeitgeist.