Confirming the news, Kinsella said on her website, “I’m thrilled to be returning to the world of Becky Bloomwood and can’t wait to share the next installment of her story with you. The upcoming novel Christmas Shopaholic will release almost 20 years after the first Shopaholic book came out. Financial journalist Rebecca Bloomwood seeks solace from the boredom and pressures in life with her shopping, a solution that brings her close to financial. Following its huge success, the book was adapted into the movie Confessions of a Shopaholic in 2009 starring Isla Fisher as Becky and Hugh Dancy as her crush Luke. Kinsella wrote the first book in the Shopaholic series titled The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic in 2000 introducing the readers to their favourite shopaholic Becky Bloomwood, a financial journalist who is a shopaholic and ironically couldn't control her finances. Now, four years later, Transworld has announced that the author will return to her bestselling series with the book Christmas Shopaholic which will release this year. The last book in the series Shopaholic to the Rescue was published in 2015. It's implied that couples have sex by the third date.Popular author Sophie Kinsella is best known for her hit Shopaholic series featuring the much-loved character Becky Bloomwood. There are several references to adults drinking and sex (nothing explicit). The main character, Becky, is shallow and self-absorbed, though by the end she's a little less so. Parents need to know that, as the title suggests, this book features rampant consumerism it describes shopping trips the way a chef might wax eloquent about a gourmet meal or an artist rhapsodize about a masterpiece. A minor character smokes and Becky thinks 'even though I don't really smoke anymore, I suddenly feel as though I could do with one myself.'ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide.

Neighbors offer her a sherry in the afternoon - 'Never too early for a sherry!' - and Becky decides they're alcoholics. The movie, based on Sophie Kinsella’s Shopaholic novel series, followed the life of Rebecca Becky Bloomwood, a retail-addicted columnist as she battles with her inability to stop spending. Looking over her credit card bill, she deems her three bottles of wine 'essential.' Becky keeps drinking to force herself to be attracted to a rich man she doesn't really like. From 1 New York Times bestselling author Sophie Kinsella, a novel with the same wicked humor, buoyant charm, and optimism as her beloved Shopaholic series.

There are multiple references to drinking mixed drinks (gin and tonic), champagne, and wine, sometimes in excess. Description Shopaholic is a series of 10 books written by Sophie Kinsella.

Confessions of a shopaholic book series