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Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 Elianne
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'In 1881 ‘Big Jim' Durham, an English soldier of fortune and profiteer, ruthlessly creates for Elianne Desmarais, his young French wife, the finest of the great sugar mills of the Southern Queensland cane fields, and names it in her honour.

'The massive estate becomes a self-sufficient fortress, a cane-consuming monster and home to hundreds of workers, but ‘Elianne' and its masters, the Durham Family, have dark and distant secrets; secrets that surface in the wildest and most inflammatory of times, the 1960s.

'For Kate Durham and her brothers Neil and Alan, freedom is the catchword of the decade.Young Australians leap to the barricades of the social revolution. Rock ‘n' roll, the Pill, the Vietnam War, the rise of Feminism, Asian immigration and the Freedom Ride join forces to rattle the chains of traditional values.

'The workers leave the great sugar estates as mechanisation lessens the need for labour. And the Durham family, its secrets exposed, begins its fall from grace... ' (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

  • Dedication:

    This book is dedicated to the people of Bundaberg and to all those Queenslanders who suffered such hardship in the floods of 2011, only to be revisited by the even more catastrophic floods of 2013. Like the rest of Australia, I marvel at the bravery and spirit of mateship displayed in the face of such adversity.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • North Sydney, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Random House Australia , 2013 .
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      Extent: 472p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 1 November 2013
      ISBN: 9781742758381
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2020 .
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      Extent: 496p.
      Note/s:
      • Published: 18th August 2020
      ISBN: 9781761041310

Other Formats

  • Sound recording.
  • Braille.
  • Large print.
  • Dyslexic edition.

Works about this Work

Read Hot : The 10 Page-Turners You Have to Pick Up Fran Metcalf , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 30 November 2013; (p. 48)
Sweet Secrets Fran Metcalf , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 23 November 2013; (p. 19)

— Review of Elianne Judy Nunn , 2013 single work novel
'Christmas is not always joyful in Judy Nunn's new novel, writes Fran Metcalf.'
Sweet Secrets Fran Metcalf , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 23 November 2013; (p. 19)

— Review of Elianne Judy Nunn , 2013 single work novel
'Christmas is not always joyful in Judy Nunn's new novel, writes Fran Metcalf.'
Read Hot : The 10 Page-Turners You Have to Pick Up Fran Metcalf , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 30 November 2013; (p. 48)
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