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For those who are already named Melissa, and for parents contemplating the name for a new born daughter, The Melissa Book provides a delightful assortment of background information on the name and its origins.
Chapter after chapter, the reader is presented with an insight into those already bearing the name, some famous, a few infamous, in walks of life varying from the arts, via commerce to sport and athletics.
The amount of research carried out by Melissa Bee in preparation for the publication of this book is remarkable, revealing, as it does, that there is virtually no aspect of human endeavour that does not have at least one Melissa among its representatives..
To parody a phrase this book is like a hive full of sweet honey collected by a very busy bee which has buzzed far and wide in its searches.
Michael Williams, B.A.( Hons), Peter Cowan Writers' Centre, WA (April 2006) Author of many poems and short stories, published in anthologies, and periodicals in Australia and overseas.
Co-author of Andiamo in Italia, a bilingual story of a journey undertaken by an Australian woman, born of migrant parents, with her Australian husband and their twin children, where they travel through many interesting places in Italy on their way to visit her grandparents in Sicily.
Author of Memorie dell'Italia, an illustrated book of poems in English with Italian, resulting from a series of visits to Italy.
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