Adele Parks
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Adele Parks | |
|---|---|
| Born | Teesside, England |
| Alma mater | University of Leicester |
| Occupation | Author |
| Website | www |
Adele Parks MBE (born 1969 or 1970) 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.
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]
She is a Pescaterian[9]. She lives in Surrey with her husband[10].
