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Author Adele Parks: 'My husband quit his huge movie industry career to run the house - we didn’t want nannies bringing up our son'


First she switched from writing romantic fiction to twisty domestic noir tales – now Adele Parks is turning her hand to movies as she tells us how she truly makes it all happen, balancing family and career

It’s a psychological thriller that looks at the issue of living in the shadow of a previous wife, as a whirlwind relationship between career-driven Emma and Matthew, a widower 12 years her junior, goes awry. “If I write the screenplay, we’d be looking to try and get a green light over the next year and then film it,” says Adele, 55, whose books have sold in their millions and been translated into 31 languages. “First Wife’s Shadow is about a woman who is completely sorted, financially successful, who has built her own home and is CEO of an energy company.

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