Shopaholic · Book 1
The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic
- Published
- 1 January 2000
- Pages
- 319
- ISBN-13
- 9780552998871
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic opened Sophie Kinsella's series in 2000 (published in the US as Confessions of a Shopaholic), a 319-page debut that preceded Shopaholic Abroad the following year. It introduces financial journalist Becky Bloomwood, whose compulsive spending and genius for self-justification helped define the early-2000s chick-lit boom.
Its place in Shopaholic
The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic is book 1 in the Shopaholic series. It is followed by Shopaholic Abroad. See the full Shopaholic reading order.
Becky Bloomwood is a financial journalist who cannot manage her own money — a walking contradiction Sophie Kinsella turns into the defining joke and the beating heart of the Shopaholic series. Becky's compulsive spending, her genius for self-justifying rationalization, and the mounting pile of unopened bank statements she hides from everyone she loves make the opening novel, The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic (2000, published in the US as Confessions of a Shopaholic ), one of the books that helped define the…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780552998871