Adele Parks

Adele Parks is an English women's fiction author. She has written 21 novels in her 21-year career as an author and is one of the bestselling authors of women's fiction in the United Kingdom.

Adele Parks
Born
Teesside, England
OccupationAuthor
Websitewww.adeleparks.com

Biography

Parks was born in Teesside. She decided she wanted to be a writer at the age of 7 and studied English at the University of Leicester. Before becoming a novelist, Parks worked in advertising and management consultancy.[1] Her debut novel, Playing Away, was released in 2000.[2]

As of 2015, she has sold over 3.5 million UK edition copies of her novels[3] and her books have been translated into 27 languages.[4] Every one of her first 18 novels was a bestseller in the UK.

She was a judge of the Costa Book Awards in 2010 and has regularly been the judge of the Costa Short Story Awards. In 2009 she was awarded an honorary doctorate, a Doctor of Letters, by Teesside University. Her Quick Read book, "Happy Families" won the Learners’ Favourite Award. She is an ambassador for literacy charity The Reading Agency and a Patron of the National Literacy Trust. She is also a Patron of The Guildford Book Festival.

Lies, Lies, Lies was shortlisted for the 2020 Fiction Book of the Year in the British Book Awards.[5]

In 2020, Parks entered a deal with MPCA and Engage Productions for cinematic adaptations of her books.[4]

Personal life

Parks has been married twice, divorcing her first husband aged 32.[2] She has an adult son, Conrad.[6]

Works
  • Playing Away (2000)
  • Game Over (2001)
  • Larger Than Life (2002)
  • The Other Woman's Shoes (2003)
  • Still Thinking of You (2004)
  • Husbands (2005)
  • Young Wives' Tales (2007)
  • Happy Families (2008)
  • Tell Me Something (2009)
  • Love Lies (2009)
  • Men I've Loved Before (2010)
  • About Last Night (2011)
  • Whatever It Takes (2012)
  • The State We're In (2013)
  • Spare Brides (2014)
  • If You Go Away (2015)
  • Love Is a Journey (2016)
  • The Stranger in My Home (2016)
  • Lies lies lies" (2016)
  • The Image of You (2017)
  • I Invited Her In (2018)
  • Lies Lies Lies (2019)
  • Just My Luck (2020)

References
  1. "How We Met: Adele Parks & Jane Fallon". The Independent. 2016-01-10. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
  2. "Adele Parks: 'I think I am a really good writer'". The Independent. 2012-06-30. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
  3. "Adele Parks: Publicity". Archived from the original on 1 March 2015. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  4. Wiseman, Andreas; Wiseman, Andreas (2020-11-16). "'The Princess Switch: Switched Again' Producers Ink Deal With UK Novelist Adele Parks For Movie Adaptations". Deadline. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
  5. "British Book Awards 2020: Books of the Year shortlists revealed | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 2020-03-20.
  6. Parks, Adele. "My son is off to uni and I'm excited, not bereft... So why am I made to feel like a bad mother?". The Telegraph.
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