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Tessa is Jackson Brodie’s wife, a 34-year-old curator at the British Museum. They met at a posh party hosted by Jackson’s old boss, Bernie. Tessa is beautiful, smart, and has a mysterious past. While Jackson is hospitalized in Edinburgh, Tessa is allegedly attending a conference in the United States. When Jackson finally returns home to their London flat, however, he learns that Tessa and Bernie had conned him all along, designing “Tessa’s” personality to suit him. Tessa has cleaned out Jackson’s bank accounts and disappeared.
Tessa Webb Quotes in When Will There Be Good News?
The When Will There Be Good News? quotes below are all either spoken by Tessa Webb or refer to Tessa Webb. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Jackson Risen
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In the dream he had opened his heart and let Louise in. The dream had unsettled him. Tessa hadn’t existed in the dream world, as if she had never entered his life. The train crash had caused a rift in his world, an earthquake crack that seemed to have put an impossible distance between him and the life he shared with Tessa. New wife, new life. He had proposed to her the day after Louise texted him to tell him she was getting married, it had never struck him at the time that the two things might have been related. But then he’d never been much good at figuring out the anatomy of his behavior. (Women, on the other hand, seemed to find him transparent.)
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Tessa Webb Quotes in When Will There Be Good News?
The When Will There Be Good News? quotes below are all either spoken by Tessa Webb or refer to Tessa Webb. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Jackson Risen
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In the dream he had opened his heart and let Louise in. The dream had unsettled him. Tessa hadn’t existed in the dream world, as if she had never entered his life. The train crash had caused a rift in his world, an earthquake crack that seemed to have put an impossible distance between him and the life he shared with Tessa. New wife, new life. He had proposed to her the day after Louise texted him to tell him she was getting married, it had never struck him at the time that the two things might have been related. But then he’d never been much good at figuring out the anatomy of his behavior. (Women, on the other hand, seemed to find him transparent.)
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