Adele Parks

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.

Adele Parks MBE
Born	Teesside, England
Alma mater	University of Leicester
Occupation	Author
Website	www.adeleparks.com

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. "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. "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.

External links

• Official website