Becoming Tess

Growing up in a dysfunctional family is a bad start in life. Tess Dawson had a very bad start, a start that led to events that she didn't choose , including a daughter, Rachel...

How did Rachel die? Tess can’t remember. But how her brother, Stephen, died she can remember – she just hasn’t told anyone. In fact, for months before, during and after her trial, she hasn’t spoken a word. Until, that is, she meets her therapist, Evelyn Doyle, and the whole story of her journey to west Wales to see her brother unfolds in the privacy of the therapy room.

The telling of Tess’s story becomes a race against time as Peter Archer, Director of the progressive penal institution, has taken against her. Tess must, at all costs, be kept at the Unit until she’s told her story, and unlocked the dark and life-changing secret that she herself does not yet know.