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Tess Little

Biography

Tess Little

Tess Little is a writer and historian. She was born in Norwich, Norfolk, and studied history at Oxford and Cambridge. At the age of 22, she was elected as a fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford, where she completed a doctorate on 1970s feminist activism in the UK, France and the United States. Her short stories and nonfiction have appeared in WORDS AND WOMEN: Two, The Mays Anthology, The Belleville Park Pages and The White Review, and on posters outside a London tube station. THE LAST GUEST is her first novel

Tess Little

Books by Tess Little

The Last Guest
by Tess Little - Fiction, Mystery, Women's Fiction

When Elspeth Bell attends the 50th birthday party of her ex-husband, Richard Bryant, the Hollywood director who launched her acting career, all she wants is to pass unnoticed through the glamorous crowd in his sprawling Los Angeles mansion. Instead, there are only seven other guests and his pet octopus, Persephone. Come morning, Richard is dead --- and all of them are suspects. Dark stories from Richard's past begin to surface, colliding with memories of their marriage that Elspeth vowed never to revisit. She begins to wonder not just who killed Richard, but why these eight guests were invited --- and what sort of man would desire to possess a creature as mysterious and unsettling as Persephone.