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Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 Travelling with the Duke
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'Nelly Larkin has run away, and no-one knows where she is - except Pino, the local green grocer, and he is sworn to secrecy. She certainly hasn't confided in her daughter, Anna, or her grandchildren, who would only try to stop her. With her Italian dictionary and grammar book and a portrait of the Duke of Montefeltro to inspire her, Nelly settles into her small "room with a view" in a hilltop town in Tuscany.

'Her new life as the local curiosity is busy, as she works on her Italian vocabulary, learns to make the perfect zabaglione, and wards off the attentions of a persistent, yet eccentric professor of Renaissance art. She quickly becomes a part of the community - but steadfastly refuses to write home.

'Back in Australia the search for Nelly sets off a chain of events, journeys, and encounters that change the lives of her daughter Anna, her granddaughter Katherine, and even her downstairs neighbour, Mrs Ellis, forever.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Dedication: To Ida and Silvio Gigli and Milly.

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    • North Sydney, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Bantam Australia , 2009 .
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      • Publication date: 2 March 2009.
      ISBN: 9781863256285

Works about this Work

In Short : Fiction Kerryn Goldsworthy , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 14-15 March 2009; (p. 30)

— Review of Travelling with the Duke Anne Harvey , 2009 single work novel
Off the Shelf : Fiction Lorien Kaye , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 7 March 2009; (p. 26)

— Review of Travelling with the Duke Anne Harvey , 2009 single work novel
Off the Shelf : Fiction Lorien Kaye , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 7 March 2009; (p. 26)

— Review of Travelling with the Duke Anne Harvey , 2009 single work novel
In Short : Fiction Kerryn Goldsworthy , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 14-15 March 2009; (p. 30)

— Review of Travelling with the Duke Anne Harvey , 2009 single work novel
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