I love all my characters. I love their weaknesses and flaws. I feel like they're all my best friends and I adore being with them.

I'm sitting at the dinner table, wearing my future mother-in-law's underwear. It's like some twisted dream that you wake up and thinkL Crikey Moses! Thank God that didn't really happen!

So", says Jack at at last..."you broke up with Connor". Wow. So we're straight to the point. "So", I reply defiantly. "You decided to stay". "Yes, well...", "I thought I might take a closer look at some of the European subsidiaries." He looks up. "How about you?" "Same reason." I nod. "European subsidiaries".

The worst thing a girl can do is trail after a boy when a love affair is dead.

Some things are best left a blur. Births and Visa Bills.

If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are.

My real name is Madeleine Wickham, under which I write dramas with an edge of humour. As Sophie Kinsella its fast, all-out comedies, such as the Shopaholic series.