Adele Parks

Adele Parks
Born
Teesside, England
Alma materUniversity of Leicester
OccupationAuthor
Websitewww.adeleparks.com

Adele Parks MBE is an English women's fiction author. She has written 24 novels in her 24-year career as an author and is one of the bestselling authors of women's fiction in the United Kingdom.

Biography

Parks is from Teesside, near Middlesbrough, in North Yorkshire.[1] She decided she wanted to be a writer at the age of seven. She studied English at the University of Leicester. Before becoming a novelist, Parks worked in advertising and management consultancy.[2] Her debut novel, Playing Away, was released in 2000.[3]

As of January 2025, she has sold more than 5.5 million UK edition copies of her novels[4] and her books have been translated into 31 languages.[4][better source needed] Every one of her 23 novels are bestsellers in the UK.

She was awarded with an MBE in the New Year Honours List 2022.[5] 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.[citation needed]

Lies, Lies, Lies was shortlisted for the 2020 Fiction Book of the Year in the British Book Awards.[6]

In 2020, Parks entered a deal with MPCA and Engage Productions for cinematic adaptations of her books.[7]

Personal life

Parks has been married twice, divorcing her first husband aged 32.[3] She has an adult son, Conrad.[8]

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 (2008)
  • Love Lies (2009)
  • Men I've Loved Before (2010)
  • About Last Night (2011)
  • Whatever It Takes (2012)
  • The State We're In (2013)3
  • Spare Brides (2014)
  • If You Go Away (2015)
  • Love Is a Journey (2016)
  • The Stranger in My Home (2016)
  • The Image of You (2017)
  • I Invited Her In (2018)
  • Lies Lies Lies (2019)
  • Just My Luck (2020)
  • Both of You (2021)
  • One Last Secret (2022)
  • Just Between Us (2023)
  • First Wife's Shadow (2024)

References

  1. ^ "My Life In Books: Adele Parks". SheerLuxe. 18 July 2023. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
  2. ^ "How We Met: Adele Parks & Jane Fallon". The Independent. 10 January 2016. Archived from the original on 9 September 2021. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Adele Parks: 'I think I am a really good writer'". The Independent. 30 June 2012. Archived from the original on 2 July 2012. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  4. ^ a b "www.adeleparks.com". www.adeleparks.com. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  5. ^ "UK Government". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  6. ^ "British Book Awards 2020: Books of the Year shortlists revealed | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  7. ^ Wiseman, Andreas (16 November 2020). "'The Princess Switch: Switched Again' Producers Ink Deal With UK Novelist Adele Parks For Movie Adaptations". Deadline. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  8. ^ Parks, Adele (27 September 2019). "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. Archived from the original on 27 September 2019.

 

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