Adele Parks

British writer
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroBritish writer
PlacesUnited Kingdom Great Britain
isWriter
Work fieldLiterature
Gender
Female
Birth11 February 1969, Teesside
Age55 years
The details

Biography

Adele Parks is a women’s fiction author from the UK.
Parks was born in 1969 in north-east England and studied English at the University of Leicester. She has sold over three million UK edition copies of her novels and her books have been translated into over 26 languages. Husbands has sold over a quarter of a million copies. Every one of her 15 novels, have all been bestsellers in the UK.
She was a judge the Costa Book Awards in 2010. In 2009 she was awarded an honorary doctorate, a Doctor of Letters, by the Teesside University. Her Quick Read book, Happy Families won the Learners’ Favourite Award. She an ambassador for literacy charity The Reading Agency and a supporter of the National Literacy Trust. She a Patron of The Guildford Book Festival.

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)

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