Author Adele Parks: 'My husband quit his huge movie industry career to run the house - we didn’t want nannies bringing up our son'
ok.co.ukAdele Parks has been commissioned to write the screenplay of her 24th novel, First Wife’s Shadow. 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.
Emma becomes obsessed with his late first wife… and then strange things start to happen. “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.
Her husband Jim has also been involved in her movie journey. A former international marketing director and website designer, he retrained at the National Film and Television School to help achieve their ambition of turning her previous book, The Image Of You, into a film.
The couple were executive producers on The Image Of You – a dark tale about identical twin sisters and how one goes to extreme measures to discover the truth about the man the other is dating.
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