Adele Parks takes readers into the lives of both families as they try to reconcile the fact that Katherine and Olivia grew up in the wrong homes and must now determine how they will proceed as a family. Connie is married to Luke and has been for the last year, she believes happily. However, life is becoming stale so when she meets John Harding at a work conference, she struggles to resist. Then, when she meets him again at a similar event, she fails. For Connie, meeting John Harding is lust at first sight and although she is at first determined not to sleep with him, her resistance soon crumbles. She throws herself headlong into an affair with him, making sure her husband doesn't find out and even keeping the secret from some of her closest friends for fear they would neither understand nor approve. I would have to say though that the only plot that actually kept me interested long enough to finish the book was Rose and Craig's storyline. It just drove me insane how each of the characters were absolute jerks! Especially Lucy and John. Yeah yeah, I'll probably get the whole "but they redeemed themselves at the end". Well, it was a little too late for me. 50 chapters, and I had to wait till chapter 46 for me to feel the least bit of sympathy and understanding for either of them?

That’s such a hard question! Especially because I know so many authors now and I’m emotionally involved with them if they’re my friend – so it’s virtually impossible to choose just one. That said, I love Kate Atkinson’s novels. I’ve never heard her talk at a festival, but I always buy one of her books the minute it comes out. She’s admirably versatile; she’s written family drama, crime detective series and each one is always brilliant. What’s been your favourite read of 2022 so far? Adele attributes her considerable visibility to her chatty persona. She is also fairly opinionated. As such, while many of her peers in the publishing arena would rather disappear behind a computer, Adele is out in public making her voice heard. Alison has nothing to complain about. Her life is charmed. Her home is a happy place, made so by her husband Jeff and their brilliant daughter Katherine. Alison’s life revolves around Katherine. In 2020, Parks entered a deal with MPCA and Engage Productions for cinematic adaptations of her books. [6] She decides to embark on an adulterous affair with a horridly smarmy and slimy guy from work and proceeds to throw caution to the wind. I felt completely awful for her poor, unknowing husband throughout.Both Rose and Lucy would love nothing better than to embody Connie’s life. Connie isn’t just happily married. She also has two thriving kids even while pursuing a successful career. Parks was born in Teesside. She decided she wanted to be a writer at the age of 7 and studied English at the University of Leicester. Before becoming a novelist, Parks worked in advertising and management consultancy. [1] Her debut novel, Playing Away, was released in 2000. [2] It made me really sit up and wonder about all those who have affairs, and truely marvel at how they can be so deceitful. The way I look at it is, if you want to have an affair then maybe you should rethink your marriage before embarking on one. I know there is a point in the life of a reader (especially female readers) when you have babies and toddlers and you still want to read. But your mommy brain is not really up to anything. I totally get that. I read Mills and Boon and dumb-dumb thrillers for around five years because my post-baby brain and schedule could not handle anything more taxing. Even my beloved Stephen King was beyond me at certain points... Ya, saya berjuang menyelesaikan buku ini dengan satu alasan, ingin tahu nasib Rose pada akhirnya. Apakah ibu tunggal yang mengalami perceraian, yang berusaha keras menata hidupnya dan kedua anak kembarnya agar baik-baik saja ini, mendapatkan akhir yang bahagia. Sesederhana itu.

Adele Parks MBE is an English women's fiction author. She has written 21 novels in her 21-year career as an author and is one of the bestselling authors of women's fiction in the United Kingdom. Adele Parks MBE is one of the most-loved and biggest-selling women's fiction writers in the UK. She has sold over 4 million books and her work has been translated into 30 different languages. Luke and Connie’s close friends look up to their relationship and hope to find their own soul mates. When Connie starts an affair with John and tells her closest friend she is horrified that she would risk such a loving relationship, but Connie is completely hooked by John’s sex appeal. The characters weren't particularly well drawn and it's quite tough to sympathise with any of them, even when they are struggling with aspects of their lives. None of them seem particularly likeable and even when there comes a time where you are perhaps encouraged to sympathise with one character, or take sides after disagreements between them; I simply found that I couldn't be bothered. By that point, I was just too bored with the whole thing. Wiseman, Andreas (16 November 2020). " 'The Princess Switch: Switched Again' Producers Ink Deal With UK Novelist Adele Parks For Movie Adaptations". Deadline . Retrieved 23 November 2021.Alison doesn’t want to believe him but the evidence begins to corroborate his story. If that wasn’t bad enough, the man tells Allison that his wife died of cancer and that Katherine might have inherited it.