Adele Parks


Adele Parks is a women's fiction author from the UK.

Biography

Parks was born in the north-east of England and studied English at the University of Leicester. She has sold over 3.5 million UK edition copies of her novels and her books have been translated into over 26 languages. Every one of her 18 novels has been a bestseller in the UK.
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.
Lies, Lies, Lies was shortlisted for the 2020 Fiction Book of the Year in the British Book Awards.

Works