I’ve Got Your Number

“Every book I write starts with a “What If…?” And I’ve Got Your Number has got a whole bunch of them. What if you lost your engagement ring AND your phone and you were completely desperate? What if you found an abandoned phone in a bin? Would you take it? Would you think, it’s mine now, finders keepers?  Would you read all the messages on it? Would you mind your own business, or would you find yourself maybe… interfering?

I’ve Got Your Number is about a girl called Poppy, who finds a phone belonging to a total stranger called Sam, and from that moment becomes embroiled in his life. It’s amazing what you can find out about somebody just from a few texts and messages. It’s amazing how your whole life can be turned upside down by one little text. And it’s amazing to find out how hard it is to hide the fact that you’ve lost your priceless engagement ring from your fiancé!”

Twenties Girl

“Twenties Girl is a little different from my other books, as it’s the only one to feature a ghost! I wondered what readers would think of the idea and was thrilled to get so many amazing comments from readers who loved the main character, Lara, and the feisty flapper-girl-ghost, Sadie.

Lara’s great aunt Sadie comes back to haunt her as a flapper girl from the Twenties. Lara doesn’t even believe in ghosts, but here this girl is and she can’t escape her! Sadie has a mission for Lara and she just won’t stop pestering her about an old dragonfly necklace. It’s a story of an unlikely friendship, a story of fashion, love, dancing, and some cringingly embarrassing moments! I do hope you enjoy it…”

Wedding Night

“Wedding Night is a comedy about two sisters, Lottie and Fliss. When Lottie marries her old flame on the rebound, Fliss thinks her little sister has made a terrible mistake and decides the only possible solution is to secretly derail their honeymoon. Poor Lottie has no idea what’s going on, and has no idea why her perfect honeymoon is turning into one catastrophe after another!

This is probably the most farcical book I’ve ever written and I loved all the broad comedy, near-misses and comedy of errors. I also loved writing from the perspective of two sisters. I laughed (and cringed) along with Fliss and Lottie, and I hope you do too…”

Remember Me?

The initial idea for Remember Me? came from me thinking: ‘What if you woke up and everything in your life was magically perfect?’

Now, this is never going to happen to any of us, but I made the story work with my heroine, Lexi Smart, waking up in a hospital bed having had a car crash – she has amnesia and she’s lost the last three years of her memory.  All sorts of things have happened to her in that time, but she thinks she’s still 25, working in a boring job, with a boyfriend who just stood her up, and it’s all a bit rubbish. When she wakes up, she’s the boss of her department, she’s married to a millionaire, she’s had her teeth fixed, she looks amazing AND she’s got a Louis Vuitton handbag; basically her entire dream life has come true.

It’s the story of how she copes with this, how she finds out how she got to be this person, and whether it really is as perfect as it seems. Because dream lives have a tendency not to be as dreamy as you think…

Mummy Fairy and Me/Fairy Mom and Me

I am delighted to introduce my first ever book for young children. It’s a project which began at my own children’s bedtimes, as I invented the characters of Ella and her Fairy mother for them. I heard them laugh, enjoyed each story with them, and soon decided to bring my creation to a wider audience.

The world of Ella and her magical mother is, in many ways, real. Ella goes to school and plays with her friends. Her mother is like any other… except when she turns into a fairy! My own children adored the fact that her phone turns into a magical Computawand. I could see them eyeing up my phone. Might I too secretly be a fairy?

Both Ella and her Fairy mother learn a lot from their madcap adventures and I hope my readers will absorb these lessons too. But most of all I hope that anyone who reads these stories will smile, laugh, enjoy… and let a little magical sparkle into their life!

Sophie x

P.S. Listen to me reading an extract from the audiobook here!

Mummy Fairy and Me: Fairy-in-Waiting

I am thrilled to be introducing the second book in the Mummy Fairy series. Fairy-in-Waiting features four more exciting escapades, including magic spells, some extremely cheeky monkeys and the best birthday party ever!

These books started during my own children’s story time as I created the characters of Ella and her fairy mother for them. As I started to invent more stories, I found that I began taking inspiration from the most unexpected places. One of the adventures in the book is inspired by a wardrobe we’ve had in our house for years that always looks like it might have a very mischievous personality if it suddenly sprang to life!

I can’t wait for you to read about Ella and her magical mother in Fairy-in-Waiting, and I hope these new adventures will sprinkle a little fairy dust over story time with your own children!

The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic/Confessions of a Shopaholic

“This is where it all begins. Meet Rebecca Bloomwood. She’s a financial journalist who spends all day writing articles on how to manage money wisely. Her own method of managing money is to hide her Visa bills under the bed and hope they’ll disappear.

Becky just can’t stop shopping, whether it’s stocking up on 3 for 2 offers, or buying an essential grey cardigan, or falling in lust with a pair of dreamy shoes.

She knows she has to stop, and decides to follow her Dad’s advice: Cut Back or Make More Money. Except, Cutting Back seems impossible, and her attempts to Make More Money just get her into trouble. Her bank manager is sending her sterner and sterner letters, her credit cards are being declined, her Mum and Dad have no idea… what is she going to do?

Will Becky ever take control of her life, find love and regain the use of her credit card?

It was the most fun book ever to write. I laughed and laughed, even as I was thinking that people might think I was insane. What I had no idea was how many Becky Bloomwoods there are out there in this world. They’re in every country, as far as I can make out. And lots of them are men.

If you haven’t met Rebecca Bloomwood before then I really hope you enjoy her. If you have, then look out for more adventures to come!”

Shopaholic Abroad/Shopaholic Takes Manhattan

“The minute I finished writing the first Shopaholic book, I knew I wanted to write a second… and I instantly knew I wanted to send Becky to New York. After all, it’s shopping heaven! I knew she’d love the city, I knew she’d get into trouble there, and I knew I’d have huge fun researching it (shopping in New York – tough job!) and creating a transatlantic adventure.

The book opens with Rebecca in pretty good shape – she has a job on morning TV, her bank manager is being nice to her for a change and she has a brilliant new motto: Buy Only What You Need. Which she’s sticking to. Kind of.

Then she’s offered a chance to work in New York, and she steps into a kind of whirlwind. She’s definitely going to do sightseeing and culture… once she’s checked out Saks Fifth Avenue, and sample sales, and all the other dazzling New York shops. But Becky’s eyes are so dazzled that she doesn’t realize what else is going on around her – till it all comes crashing down.”