by Colleen McCullough · Virago · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781844084470
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«The Thorn Birds» is the novel by Colleen McCullough, published by Virago in paperback (573 pages, in English).
Set in the Australian outback, the novel follows the Cleary family across several generations, from when Paddy and his wife settle with their children on a sheep station in 1915. Passions, secrets and impossible loves mark their fate until after the Second World War.
30th anniversary edition of «The Thorn Birds», in the Virago Modern Classics collection. The work was originally published in 1977.
For readers of family sagas and romantic novels with a historical 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.
