In Search of Elisa Marchetti: a writer’s search for her Italian family - Tessa Duder

This account is of Tessa Duder's search for her Italian roots. Her great-grandparents emigrated to New Zealand from Italy in 1876, their youngest daughter, Elisa, was Tessa's maternal grandmother. Elisa passed on to Tessa a deep love of Italian opera, art and language. Tessa Duder is one of New Zealand's leading teenage fiction writers. Penguin Books, 2002. Paperback, 222 pages. Condition: secondhand paperback in good condition. Fading on the cover’s spine.