About Just Say It by Tessa Barrie:
Doc Martens takes on Dior as a workaholic daughter finally rebels against mollycoddled mother. After forty years of verbal incontinence, will the two ever see eye to eye? Will the twain ever meet?
Just Say It covers the period 1940-2002 and is set in Gloucestershire, London and Portugal.
In 1999, Lisa Grant, once a well-known columnist for a leading UK magazine, turns forty. Attempting to avoid a midlife crisis, she finishes writing a therapeutic spoof about her life, but it only scratches the surface of the problem – the rocky relationship she has always had with her narcissistic mother, Elizabeth.
Realising she needs to break the negative emotional hold her mother has over her, Lisa harnesses her journalistic skills to investigate her mother’s life before she came to London in 1957 as a seventeen-year-old debutante and is shocked by what she finds.
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Author Bio:
Tessa Barrie is the alter ego of Sally Edmondson, who was born in Yorkshire on the UK Mainland. She now lives on the British Channel Island of Jersey, where she blogs at My Alter Ego and Me @tessabarrie.com, entertaining readers with the forgetfully funny Dotage Diaries and a series of, often damp, squibs under the heading of My Life to Date and How I’ve Survived It.
She is also the mother of the feisty canine blogger Cassie the Blog Dog.
Since receiving her first writing gong, aged 7, a Blue Peter badge for poetry, she has been listed in several writing competitions, including Fiction Factory, Flash 500, and Retreat West.
All Tessa’s writing is knitted together with a degree of humour. However, feedback on early drafts of her firstborn novel delivered a stark warning. ‘Make sure you amuse, rather than bludgeon, the reader with witty lines.’ So, realising less is more when it comes to comic writing, after many agonising rewrites and several lengthy eye-watering edits, her debut novel Just Say was born. Novel number two, a murder mystery spoof, is in the pipeline.