Can you imagine being a young Italian girl in a strange country, newly married, and scarcely able to speak the English language? Little did Rosa know that when she first arrived in Australia, the letter she held in her hand destined for a certain young man called Giovabattista, would be the beginning of a courtship leading to marriage. No sooner were the wedding festivities over, a lifetime of enduring hardship in the cane fields of far northern Australia becomes entrenched. Within no time, her "Batti' or John, as she affectionately calls him, is away engaged in a war in which he had no...