The Thorn Birds
Colleen McCullough author Maeve Binchy editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Published:2nd Aug '07
Should be back in stock very soon
* Featured on the Virago website
One of the most loved novels of all time, The Thorn Birds is a sweeping saga of dreams, titanic struggles, dark passions and forbidden love in the Australian Outback.Sometimes when he didn't know he was being watched Meggie would look at him and try desperately to imprint his face upon her brain's core ...And he would turn to find her watching him, a look in his eyes of haunted grief, a doomed look. She understood the implicit message, or thought she did; he must go, back to the Church and his duties. Never again with the same spirit, perhaps, but more able to serve. For only those who have slipped and fallen know the vicissitudes of the way ...
She fell not for its romantic hero, but for its Australian setting * Guardian *
A true epic . . . It's easy to see why this stunning tale has been called the Australian Gone With The Wind * Observer *
Excellent * Daily Telegraph *
Beautiful . . . Compelling entertainment * New York Times *
I simply could not put it down. If it hadn't been wrenched from me at mealtimes, I'd have starved * Daily Mail *
A heart-rending epic . . . truly marvellous * Chicago Tribune *
DAILY MAIL * ‘One of the biggest-selling, most widely read books in the history of fiction’ *
OBSERVER * ‘A true epic. . . It’s easy to see why this stunning tale has been called the Australian Gone With The Wind’ *
DAILY TELEGRAPH * *'Excellent’ *
ISBN: 9781844084470
Dimensions: 199mm x 133mm x 39mm
Weight: 465g
592 pages