The film and TV rights for the story were acquired by Stone Village Productions in 2016. To date, more than 3.5 million copies of Behind Closed Doors have sold globally since its release. The book went on to win the Platinum Nielsen Bestseller Award in 2019 for sales of 1,000,000 copies in the UK alone. Paris the only debut fiction author to win a gold award that year. In 2017, Behind Closed Doors won the Gold Nielsen Bestseller Award for UK sales of 500,000 copies, making B.A. She was nominated in the Best Debut Author and Best Mystery & Thriller categories of the Goodreads Choice Awards of 2016. Upon being published the following year by HarperCollins Publishers, the book quickly became a #1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller.

Paris's debut novel Behind Closed Doors was picked up in 2014 by her agent, Camilla Bolton, at the Darley Anderson Literary Agency in London.

Novels Success of Behind Closed Doors ī.A. Paris lives in Hampshire with her husband and continues to write psychological thrillers. She is published by HarperCollins Publishers in the UK and St Martin's Press in the US. While she didn't win, this led her to write her first novels, including her internationally bestselling debut Behind Closed Doors. Paris began writing, when one of her daughters suggested she enter a writing competition advertised in a magazine. They eventually left the world of finance to set up a language school together. During this time, she met her husband, with whom she now has 5 daughters. After completing her education, she moved to France, where she worked as a trader in an international bank in Paris for several years. She is the third of 6 children, including 4 brothers and a sister. Paris was born in Surrey, England, in 1958 to a French mother and Irish father.

Her other books include The Breakdown (2017), Bring Me Back (2018), The Dilemma (2019) and The Therapist (2021).ī.A. It has been translated into 40 languages and has sold more than 3.5 million copies worldwide. Her debut novel, Behind Closed Doors (2016), was a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller. Paris (Bernadette MacDougall) is a Franco-British writer of fiction, mainly in the psychological thriller subgenre.

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