We both gaze down at my swollen tummy for a while. I still can't quite get my head round the fact that there's a baby inside my body. Which has got to come out... somehow. OK, let's not go there. There's still time for them to invent something.

It really is the year 2007. Which means I must be... Oh my God. I'm twenty-eight. I'm old.

But you can't stay with people because of guilt. Or because they can drive a speedboat.

When I'm on a break from writing, I'll log on to Amazon and eBay. The doorbell is constantly being rung by deliverymen.

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.

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

I had a craving for pineapple and a pink cardigan" - Becky Bloomwood Shopaholic and Baby