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This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2001 by Sophie Kinsella

Cover design by Belina Huey

Cover art © 2001 by Diane Bigda

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the written permission of the Publisher, except where permitted by law.

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Book design by Susan Yuran

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Information:

Kinsella, Sophie

Confessions of a shopaholic / Sophie Kinsella.

p.   cm.

ISBN 0-385-33548-2

1. Young women—Fiction.

2. London (England)—Fiction.

3. Shopping—Fiction.

4. Debt—Fiction. I. Title.

PR6061.154 C6 2001

823’.92—dc21    00-060398

Manufactured in the United States of America

First published in 2000 by Transworld, United Kingdom

Published simultaneously in Canada

February 2001

BVG   10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2

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