In Search of Elisa Marchetti: A Writer's Search for Her Italian Family

This book is an account 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.