A damaged and decorated hero, a man of secrets and silent pain, soon he alone possesses Honour's selfless heart - inciting tense and volatile passions that can only lead to jealousy, violence, and death.See photos for additional content. Then Michael Wilson arrives under a cloud of mystery and shame to change everything. In the rugged Australian Outback, three generations of Clearys live through joy and sadness, bitter defeat and magnificent triumph - driven by their dreams, sustained by remarkable strength of character and torn by dark passions, violence and a scandalous family legacy of forbidden love. AN INDECENT OBSESSION - To the battle-broken soldiers In her care, nurse Honour Langtry is a precious, adored reminder of the world before war. The complex, passionate plot, along with McCullough's vivid descriptions of the Australian outback, made the book a best-seller-and the movie made from it in 1983 a huge success. THE THORN BIRDS - Colleen McCullough's wildly popular epic blockbuster, first published in 1977, follows the fortunes of the Cleary family over three generations, but concentrates mainly on Meggie and her passionate, obsessive love for a Catholic priest, Father Ralph. A bit scuffed but all pages intact and legible. Drogheda, a 250,000-acre sheep station in the Australian Outback, dominates Colleen McCullough’s The Thorn Birds, giving the novel a center and a resting place. Please see any and all photos connected with this listing.
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