Charting two journeys in Tiggie's life: her evolution as an actor in her role as Eliza Matthews in the TV drama, "The Longest Journey" and her struggle into womanhood, this is the third in the coming-of-age series that juxtaposes the concerns of a 19th century girl and a "millennium chick".

Acting the gutsy nineteenth-century emigrant Eliza Matthews in the TV drama, The Longest Journey, Tiggie is increasingly disturbed by thetraumatic events of Eliza's storyline, which threaten to spill over into her real-life relationships. The finale to the Tiggie Tompson trilogy. Notable Book 2004.

Author Biography

Trained as a journalist, Tessa Duder began writing fiction when she was thirty-eight and has published six children's novels including the Alex quartet. The paperback of Alex is one of Penguin New Zealand's best-selling children' s books (over 25,000 copies sold), and in 1993 Isambard adapted the book to make a feature film. Her Alex novels have won three New Zealand Children's Book of the year awards and three Esther Glen medals, and are published in America, Britain, Australia, Canada and in five languages. Jellybean and Alex has also been named American Library Association Honour Books.
Among her leisure interests are theatre-going, music, reading and sailing.