by Colleen McCullough · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789022953402
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«De Doorn Vogels» is the historical and romantic novel by Colleen McCullough, published in 1977 in paperback (500 pages, in Dutch).
Story of the Cleary family in Australia over several decades. Meggie grows up on the Drogheda property and falls in love with Ralph de Bricassart, an ambitious priest. Their relationship, marked by faith and convention, intertwines with rural life, losses, and family secrets.
Original title: The Thorn Birds. Dutch translation by A. W. Orma. Cover illustration by Joost van Velsen.
For readers of family sagas and historical dramas with a romantic backdrop.
Colleen McCullough was an Australian author. Raised in Sydney, she trained as a neurophysiologist and spent her early career working at hospitals and universities in Australia and overseas. In 1974, while working as a research assistant at the Yale School of Medicine, she published her first novel Tim. Her second novel, The Thorn Birds, was published in 1977 and became an international bestseller. It sold more than 30 million copies worldwide and was adapted into a successful television miniseries.
