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Noon Book Club – First Wife’s Shadow, Adele Parks
July 25 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
About the author
Adele Parks MBE was born in North Yorkshire. She is the author of 23 bestselling novels including the Sunday Times bestsellers Both Of You and One Last Secret. 5 million UK editions of her work have been sold and her books have been translated into 31 different languages.
Adele’s Sunday Times Number One bestsellers Lies Lies Lies and Just My Luck were shortlisted for the British Book Awards and have been optioned for development for TV. Adele has recently Exec Produced one of her novels. Image of You will be released by Paramount in the spring. She is an ambassador of the National Literacy Trust and the Reading Agency: two charities that promote literacy in the UK. Adele has lived in Botswana, Italy and London and is now settled in Guildford, Surrey. In 2022 she was awarded an MBE for services to literature.
About the book
‘Another twisting tale of deceit, desire and dangerous obsession guaranteed to keep you turning the pages’
TM Logan Emma is a CEO, wealthy, independent, sensible – and has long put behind her chaotic childhood at the hands of alcoholic parents. She meets Matthew, a photographer at aconference. He is a widower, gentle, interested, full of admiration for her success and they quickly fall into a serious relationship.
Her friends, Heidi and Gina, are initially delighted, but when Emma gets engaged after just 3 months, they panic. Matthew says the death of his first wife Becky means he believes in seizing the day. And Emma is in love, that’s all that matters. And yet, Emma can’t shake the feeling that she is second best. Matthew would not be with her if Becky was still alive. And so, she becomes obsessed with the first wife, haunted by the memory of the woman she never met. Then the strange things start to happen.
Emma feels watched. Objects are broken or disappear. And then an incident which shows clearly Emma’s very life is in danger. Matthew thinks she’s drinking too much, like her father did.
Heidi and Gina think Matthew is gaslighting her.
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