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Book Title: The Thorn Birds
The author of the book: Colleen McCullough
Edition: Futura
Date of issue: 1980
ISBN: 0708813747
ISBN 13: 9780708813744
Language: English
Format files: PDF
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A stormy panorama of passion and grief...a uniquely moving love story that spans generations...a backcloth that stretches from Australia to the Vatican, from New Zealand to London...

The Thorn Birds begins in 1915 when Paddy Cleary, a poor New Zealand farm labourer, moves his wife and their seven children to Drogheda - the vast Australian sheep station owned by his rich, childless aging sister. It ends after the Second World War when the only survivor of the third generation - the brilliant actress Justine O'Neill - sets a course of life and love halfway round the world from her roots.

But of all the rich cast of characters, it is Meggie, only daughter among the seven Cleary children, who is the heroine at the heart of the story: Meggie whose passionate, forbidden love for the magnificent priest Ralph de Bricassart would span more than half a century...

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Colleen Margaretta McCullough was an Australian author known for her novels, her most well-known being The Thorn Birds and Tim.

Raised by her mother in Wellington and then Sydney, McCullough began writing stories at age 5. She flourished at Catholic schools and earned a physiology degree from the University of New South Wales in 1963. Planning become a doctor, she found that she had a violent allergy to hospital soap and turned instead to neurophysiology – the study of the nervous system's functions. She found jobs first in London and then at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

After her beloved younger brother Carl died in 1965 at age 25 while rescuing two drowning women in the waters off Crete, a shattered McCullough quit writing. She finally returned to her craft in 1974 with Tim, a critically acclaimed novel about the romance between a female executive and a younger, mentally disabled gardener. As always, the author proved her toughest critic: "Actually," she said, "it was an icky book, saccharine sweet."

A year later, while on a paltry $10,000 annual salary as a Yale researcher, McCullough – just "Col" to her friends – began work on the sprawling The Thorn Birds, about the lives and loves of three generations of an Australian family. Many of its details were drawn from her mother's family's experience as migrant workers, and one character, Dane, was based on brother Carl.

Though some reviews were scathing, millions of readers worldwide got caught up in her tales of doomed love and other natural calamities. The paperback rights sold for an astonishing $1.9 million.

In all, McCullough wrote 11 novels.

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