Tessa Barrie is the pen name of Jersey-based writer Sally Edmondson, who writes bittersweet stories about life.

She sprinkles a subtle touch of humour into her novels, no matter how dark they get.

She has self-published two novels: Just Say It, a bittersweet family drama, and The Secret Lives of the Doyenne of Didsbrook, a quirky murder mystery.

Her recently completed third novel, Rebuilding Freya Michaels, explores trauma, resilience and female friendship through one woman’s journey to rebuild her life. She is preparing it for submission.

Her fourth novel, The Things She Left Behind, is underway—a story of family secrets and the ways the past reshapes the present.