Adele Is Life Book Review – A Must Have For Fans, Music Lovers, Collectors

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Published on Wednesday, 17 December 2025 13:02

Written by Janet Walker

Adele is Life, from Epic Ink, presents a superfan's guide to the British powerhouse, and explores her early life, loss and tragedy, and her ability to turn the darkest moments into award winning, chart-topping, singles.

From author Kathleen Perricone, Adele is Life: A Superfan's Guide to All Things We Love About Adele brings to the pages a biographical sketch and begins chronically, we meet Adele as a child, the offspring of a whirlwind romance which faded with equal intensity, leaving Adele to be raised by a single mom, Penny Adkins.

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Told across four sections: "Part One, Hello It's Me," "Part Two: the Golden Years," "Part Three One and Only," "Part Four: Someone Life Her."  Throughout "Part One," Perricone fills in these years from interviews and archived information. Adele has never glossed over these times, and Adele is Life: A Superfan's Guide to All Things We Love About Adele, does not either.

Although, with any biographical sketch, we understand from the information provided that times were often tough, and her mom was her sole caregiver, especially after a devasting loss of her paternal grandfather which severed any relationship with her dad.

As Adele is a global superstar, her lyrics which often reveal her feelings of the moment, and what most don't know are the beginning days, born gifted, she could have easily been derailed by her circumstances unless her dedicated mom hadn't ensured that she gave Adele the lessons needed to try and allowed her to decide the direction.

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What many also don't realize is that she attended she attended the prestigious BRIT School, whose graduates include "Amy Winehouse, Leona Lewis, Jessie J., FKA Twigs, and Imogen Heap, . . .[who] have collectively sold more than 250 albums worldwide." An acceptance by audition only program, Adele, of course sang which would have been enough, but she also performed an "Instrumental version of "Tumbledown Blues," by James Rae on clarinet."

"Part Two: The Golden Years" and "Part Three: One and Only" include well circulated media accounts of those years when her Albums 21, 25, and 30, were released followed by mega tours.  Throughout this time Adele has won 16 Grammy Awards, 12 Brit Awards, an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award.

Adele is Life, A Superfan's Guide to All Things We Love About Adele, includes tidbits and backstories on which artists shaped her singing and writing style, as well as why she has decided against singing her solid gold single, "Chasing Pavements," again, as she explains it was "written when she was 19" and "When I sing it now, I still sound nineteen years old, and it annoys me."

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In "Part Four: Someone Like Her," the author offers readers small separate stories, including "Anatomy of an Artist," "Meme Material," which also includes information Carpool Karaoke appearance on The Late Late Show with James Cordon which amassed an astronomical 42 million in five days. By the end of 2025, that same video has accrued more than 266 million views.

Throughout the author explains Adele's process, and how the "songs just pour out of her," at times, and others when writer's block simply stops the process. Her process of waiting for the inspiration has been such a success she was named the highest grossing female of the 21st century holding the first place with "21," selling 31M units, and fourth place with "25," selling more 23M units. than solid gold, chart topping. Her four Albums, 19, 21, 25, and 30 coincide with her ages at the time of the release.

Across the 159 pages illustrator Lauren Mortimer has included rendition of many of Adele's most iconic and memorable fashion choices, from casual to award ceremony evening gowns.

Adele is Life: A Superfan's Guide to All Things We Love About Adele gives fans more of Adele, with interesting tidbits, encouraging stories, an understanding that triumphing over circumstances isn't easy, but it is possible, and with hard work, dedication, and persistence, the effort will produce success.

A must have for collectors, fans, and music lovers everywhere, Adele is Life: A Superfan's Guide to All Things We Love About Adele is available wherever books are sold.

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Title: Adele is Life: A Superfan's Guide to All Things We Love About Adele.

Author: Kathleen Perricone.

Language: English.

Release Date: November 6, 2025.

Publisher: The Quarto Group.

Format: Hardcover.

Images: Used with Permission.

Length: 159 pages.

ISBN: 978-0-7603-9688-9.

MSRP: $19.99 (US), $25.99 (CAN), £14.99 (UK).

Janet Walker is the publisher, founder, and sole owner of Haute-Lifestyle.com. A graduate of New York University, she has been covering international news through the Beltway Insider, a weekly review of the nation's top stories, for more than a decade.  A general beat writer/reporter and entertainment/film critic, she is also an accomplished news/investigative news/crime reporter and submitted for Pulitzer Prize consideration "Cops Conspire to Deep Six Sex Assaults" in the Breaking News Category and was persuaded to withdraw the submission. Ms. Walker has completed five award-winning screenplays "The Six Sides of Truth," "The Assassins of Fifth Avenue," "The Wednesday Killer," "The Manhattan Project," and the sci-fi thriller "Project 13: The Last Day." She has also published "Unholy Alliances: A True Crime Story," a non-fiction narrative, "Days, Times, Seasons, and Events: A Collection of Poetry & Prose," and "Songs of Freedom: A Collection of Biblical Teachings," which can be purchased here. She is a member of the Authors Guild, the Los Angeles Press Club, the National Writers Union, and a member of the International Federation of Journalists.