India, Dec. 11 -- Sophie Kinsella, the best selling author of more than 30 romantic comedy novels selling more than 45 million copies worldwide died on Wednesday. She had been diagnosed with glioblastoma, a rare and aggressive type of brain cancer in 2022.

In an interview with the New York Times last year she had said: "The irony is that I've had this incredibly fortunate life. I've had an ability to write and I've been able to have children and I met the love of my life at college and it's all fallen into place so brilliantly until, boom, the hammer blow of fate. I could see that would be the narrative."

Kinsella was one of the defining voices of what was celebrated as chick lit - witty modern novels, with bright candy-coloured covers,...