Adele Parks

by Colin.


Adele Parks reminded me somewhat of a cup of cappochino coffee. Light and frothy on the surface with hidden depths of body and bite.Also, like coffee, the effect of her was really quite lifting.

There is a tendancy amongst academics to place work, particularly literature, in to catorgory or genre.As much as she was reminded that she wrote 'Chic Lit', she just as firmly rejected the notion.

Her work, she thought, reflected contempory women's lives, but had to have an element of escapism. Readers needed to be entertained. Whilst writing of romance, love, marriage,affairs with all the attendant guilt,pain, angst, her stories needed a happy ending. Readers demanded it.

Adele thought that her work reflected on reality, she confessed that one of her novels revolved around her own love affair and marriage. It was she confessed to her husband, a 140,000 word love letter.

It was an amusing,witty and informative talk on the art of writing.

Thankyou Adele.

Excellent.