Thorn Bird = The Thorn Birds

Author: (Australia) McCulloch
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Publish Date: 1998-07-01
Features: The stories in this book begin in the early 20th century and end in the late 1960s and early 1970s, more than half a century later. It tells the life experiences and emotional journeys of three generations of the Cleary family, starting from Paddy Cleary moving to Drogheda sheep station in Australia with his wife Fiona and seven children from New Zealand at the invitation of his childless older sister, Lady Mary Carson, to Paddy's only surviving grandchild, the talented actress Meggie, who finds her life path and love destination in a distant land. The most prominent of these is the passionate and unforgettable love between Meggie and Father Ralph.