<p><strong>One woman. Two men. A war. </strong></p><p>Twenty-year-old Amelia marries Italo, a man she&rsquo;s never met. To escape an Italy reeling from the Great War, she sails to him in Far North Queensland to farm sugarcane. But before she meets her husband, she&rsquo;s thrown into the path of Fergus, a man who&rsquo;ll mark the rest of her life.</p><p>Faced with a lack of English and hostility from established cane growers, caught between warring unions and fascists, Amelia&rsquo;s steady hand grows Italo&rsquo;s business to great success, only for old grudges to break into new revenge. She is tested by forces she couldn&rsquo;t foresee and must face her greatest challenge: learning to live again.</p><p>Sweeping in its outlook, <em>Sweet Bitter Cane</em> is a family saga but also an untold story of migrant women &ndash; intelligent, courageous and enduring women who were the backbone of the sugarcane industry and who deserve to be remembered.</p>