In conversation with adele parks

When I arrive at Adele Parks’ home for our cover shoot, she’s already moving furniture. She’s in her jumpsuit and trainers. She’s directing props, adjusting lighting, topping up coffee cups and cracki

‘Are you trying to be comforting?’ ‘Yes. What do you want me to say?’ ‘Should I be angrier?’ ‘What’s done is done, I suppose.’ Lucy shrugged. Her gesture summed it all up. ‘That’s where I’m at. And pe

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‘I’m not a therapist,’ says Cecelia Ahern, ‘but I do know what it’s like to put everyone else first for so long, you almost disappear.’ It’s this quiet, universal truth that sits at the core of Paper