Adele Parks

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Adele Parks
MBE
Born
Teesside, England
OccupationAuthor
Website www.adeleparks.com

Adele Parks MBE is an English women's fiction author. She has written 23 novels in her 23-year career as an author and is one of the bestselling authors of women's fiction in the United Kingdom.

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Biography

Parks is from Teesside near Middlesbrough in North Yorkshire. [1] She decided she wanted to be a writer at the age of 7. 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 2022, she has sold over 4 million UK edition copies of her novels [4] and her books have been translated into 30 languages. [4] [ better source needed ] Every one of her 23 novels are bestsellers in the UK.

She was awarded with an M.B.E 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]

Parks was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to literature. [8]

Personal life

Parks has been married twice, divorcing her first husband aged 32. [3] She has an adult son, Conrad. [9]

Works

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References

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  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. 1 2 "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.
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  9. 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.