Just Say It: A bittersweet family drama about what it means to love unconditionally and grow from the past.
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Just Say It: A bittersweet family drama about what it means to love unconditionally and grow from the past.

by Tessa BarriePublish: Jun 03, 2021Women's Fiction Literary Fiction Humor

Book Overview

Turning forty, Lisa Grant is broke, alone and living in rural Gloucestershire, hurtling towards an inevitable midlife crisis.

Romantically, she pushes people away. She cannot say, "I love you." Jack, the only love of her life, put the Atlantic Ocean between them after they fell out the last time and now lives in New ... York.

Fearing for her sanity, she addresses the problem she has carried with her for the past forty years - her narcissistic mother, Elizabeth.

When Lisa was six years old, her father disappeared from the family home, keeping the truth about him hidden. Lisa reconnects with her father when she starts her journalistic career and discovers the grim truth about her controlling mother.

After four decades of sparring with her impossible mother, Lisa cultivates a more rational and sympathetic approach to discovering why her mother lacks empathy. Believing childhood trauma may be responsible, Lisa harnesses her journalistic skills to investigate her mother's past and is shocked by what she finds. read more

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BIOGRAPHY
Tessa Barrie was born in Harrogate, Yorkshire, and despite her parents uprooting her at the age of three and moving her down south, she is proud of her Yorkshire heritage.

Growing up, she recalls her family life being more Little House on the Prairie than The Waltons because her early years were fraught wit... h drama. However, intermingled with all the emotional disruption, she remembers humour squeezing its way through the frayed feelings.

So, incorporating humour in her writing has become very important to her as she believes that, however dark a story gets, there should always be a subtle sprinkling of humour.

In June 2021, Tessa self-published her debut novel, Just Say It, a bittersweet family saga, and her second novel, The Secret Lives of the Doyenne of Didsbrook, a quirky murder mystery, is currently on pre-order and is due for release on 1st July 2025. Her third novel, The Rebuilding of Freya Michaels, will be published in 2026. read more

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Book Detail
Title Just Say It: A bittersweet family drama about what it means to love unconditionally and grow from the past.
Author Tessa Barrie
ASIN B096N27392
Publish Date 03, Jun 2021
Publisher Amazon
Language English
Page Count 418
Cover Design Deb Sutton
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