Adele 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.
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. It stars Pretty Little Liars actress Sasha Pieterse and was released in May. An adaptation of another of Adele’s novels, The Stranger In My Home, has already been filmed and is due for release next year.
“First Wife’s Shadow is about a woman who is completely sorted, financially successful, who has built her own home and is CEO of an energy company. We don’t expect women to fall in love with younger men. We all question it when they do. “Jim and I have been married for 20 years. There is complete trust. When we met I was already a mum of a 13-month-old and I was really straightforward about saying,She acknowledges that Jim gave up his career for her and appreciates every second of it.