Paying it forward... with Adele Parks

Danni Menzies chats with best-selling author Adele Parks about eating your bodyweight in pasta in Italy, the horrors of the ten word book pitch and more in this episode of The Health Lottery podcast.

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Danni chats with Adele Parks about her life-long ambition to write which only came together for her when she was 30, but which has led to 21 best-sellers and an MBE for Services to Literature since... about being a little girl who was so bookish she had a special library card that let her take out more books at one time, and more...

You can find this heart-warming episode of the Paying It Forward podcast on all the usual platforms.

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The Paying It Forward podcast is all about celebrating big and little wins, the happy consequences of attitudes and actions.

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