Lies, Lies, Lies by Adele Parks

Paperback: Lies. They can make you. They can break you.

Daisy and Simon's marriage is great, isn't it?

After years together, the arrival of longed-for daughter Millie sealed everything in place. A happy little family of three.

And so what if Simon drinks a bit too much sometimes - Daisy's used to it, she knows he's letting off steam. Until one night at a party things spiral horribly out of control. And that happy little family of three will never be the same again.

In Lies, Lies, Lies (2019) Sunday Times bestseller Adele Parks explores the darkest corners of a relationship in freefall in a mesmerising tale of marriage and secrets.

About the author: Adele Parks was born in Teesside, NE England. She studied English Language and Literature, at Leicester University. She published her first novel, Playing Away, in 2000; that year the Evening Standard identified Adele as one of London’s ‘Twenty Faces to Watch.’ Indeed Playing Away was the debut bestseller of 2000.

Prolific, Adele has published nineteen novels in nineteen years, including Game Over, Tell Me Something and Love Lies, and all nineteen of her novels have been bestsellers. She has sold over three and a half million copies of her work in the UK but also sells throughout the world. Her books are translated into twenty-six languages. She has written numerous articles and short stories for many magazines and newspapers and often appears on radio and TV talking about her work.

She is an Ambassador for the National Literacy Trust and The Reading Agency's Six Book Challenge, a scheme that encourages emerging adult readers who are becoming passionate about books. In 2008, she wrote a Quick Read, Happy Families as part of the celebrations of World Book Day, which went on to win Quick Read Learners’ Favourite Award, as voted for by the public. Adele is also a judge for the Costa Book Awards and The British Book Awards.

All her novels examines issues that are important to us all. She likes to scrutinize concepts of family, theories on love, parenting and fidelity. Whatever period she sets her novels, she is known for examining the thorny issues of the lives people lead with her trademark, up-front, tell-it-as-it-is style.

In 2010 she was awarded an honorary doctorate of Letters from Teesside University. Adele has spent her adult life in Italy, Botswana and London, up until two years ago when she moved to Guildford, Surrey where she now lives with her husband, teenage son and cat.

Rating:  5/5