Judy Nunn’s Elianne is a novel that combines historical fiction, thriller and romance. Set on a Queensland sugar mill in the 1960, the story is set to rock ’n’ roll, the rise of feminism, the Vietnam War and the invention of the Pill. The sugar mill was created for and named after Elianne Desmarais, Big Jim’s young, French wife. Elianne and the Durham family have dark secrets that surface, and leave them falling from grace.