Tess - by Tracey Farren (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Tess, a Muizenberg sex worker, is in the business of popping painkillers by the handful and selling her body to strangers. When a condom breaks, her life swings one hundred and eighty degrees. Forced to give up her drugs until she can get to an abortion clinic, Tess goes cold turkey. The sudden clarity opens a window in her mind, leading to a shattering understanding of how she got here.

Tess's quirky humour, raw honesty, and deep love of beauty guide her toward redemption in astonishing places. This novel has a huge heart, like Tess herself, revealing that there is something in everyone that cannot be touched. Not by human hands. Not ever.

About the Author

Tracey Farren lives a stone's throw from the Cape Point with some children, a luthier and a pack of dogs. She has a psychology honours degree and worked as a freelance journalist for several years before her muse called her to fiction. Tess is a new edition of her first acclaimed, award-winning novel, Whiplash. Her second novel, Snake, was published to critical acclaim and she has just finished writing her third novel, The Rig.

She is represented by Isobel Dixon of Blake Friedmann in London.

Farren wrote the screenplay for Tess, as well as her other novel Snake, which is being optioned for a movie.