Imagine my surprise when I realised we hadn't featured Adele Parks, one of the most successful authors of the last ten years!
Adele Parks was born in the North-east of England and read English Language and Literature at Leicester University. After university she spent a year teaching English in Italy.
Back in the UK, she moved to London and started a career in advertising. After moving to Botswana for a couple of years, she continued in advertising and, in her spare time, wrote Playing Away, partly as a way of coping with five deaths in her family, including her grandfather.
Adele sent an incomplete version of Playing Away to an agent who asked to see the whole thing. Adele spent the next six months writing the rest of the book, which subsequently became the biggest selling debut of the millennium!
Adele has enjoyed five subsequent bestsellers and has been published in fourteen different countries. Her seventh book, Young Wives' Tales, will be released in April.
Adele lives in Guildford, Surrey, with her husband and son, and is working on book number eight.
Carry on over the cut for Adele's bibliography and some more book cover snaps!
Playing Away
Game Over
Larger Than Life
The Other Woman’s Shoes
Still Thinking Of You
Husbands
