Tessa Boase

Tessa Boase read English at Lincoln College, Oxford, then worked as a voiceover artist, a children’s scriptwriter, and as a commissioning editor for The Daily and Sunday Telegraph and The Daily Mail. As a freelance feature writer she contributes to The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times, The FT, The Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Observer and various magazines.

She was co-founder of the Salon des Amis (a London salon of ideas, debate and entertainment), and more recently restored a ruin in Italy’s Sabine Hills where she produces olive oil. She lives in north London with her husband and two young children.

Tessa is currently writing a history of the country house housekeeper for Aurum Press.

Contacts

Literary – Georgina Capel
Foreign Rights – Romily Must
Film & TV Rights – Georgina Capel