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Elianne

historical fiction at its finest from the bestselling author of Black Sheep
By Judy Nunn
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Elianne by Judy Nunn delves into the complex tapestry of a sugarcane plantation in Queensland, Australia, during the mid-20th century. The novel focuses on a powerful family that owns the plantation, revealing secrets, ambitions, and the effects of history and progress on their lives. As the family navigates the challenges of change and legacy, deep-seated conflicts and emotional undercurrents come to the fore.
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A sweeping story of wealth, power, privilege, and betrayal, set on a grand sugar cane plantation in Queensland.

Legacy in the Cane Fields

In 1881 'Big Jim' Durham 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.

Sugar and Secrets

The massive estate becomes a self-sufficient fortress and home to hundreds of workers, but Elianne and the Durham Family have dark and distant secrets; secrets that surface in the wildest of times, the 1960s.

An Era of Change

For Kate Durham and her brothers Neil and Alan, freedom is the catchword of the decade. 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...

In the tough world of Queensland sugar mills, it's not only cane that is crushed...

Mistress of the ripping yarn. SUN-HERALD

500 pages of perfect reading. AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S WEEKLY

Perfect summer reading. SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

A master of what she does. WEEKLY TIMES

A stunning blockbuster. WOMAN'S DAY

A prolific writer of bestsellers. THE AGE

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781761041310

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 August 2020

Country: Australia

Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 38.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 390g

Pages: 496

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About the Author

Judy Nunn's career has been long, illustrious and multifaceted. After combining her internationally successful acting career with scriptwriting for television and radio, Judy decided in the 90s to turn her hand to prose. Her first three novels, The Glitter Game, Centre Stage and Araluen, set respectively in the worlds of television, theatre and film, became instant bestsellers, and the rest is history, quite literally in fact. She has since developed a love of writing Australian historically-based fiction and her fame as a novelist has spread rapidly throughout Europe where she is published in English, German, French, Dutch, Czech and Spanish. Her subsequent bestsellers, Kal, Beneath the Southern Cross, Territory, Pacific, Heritage, Floodtide, Maralinga, Tiger Men and Elianne confirm Judy's position as one of Australia's leading fiction writers.

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