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Original Title:	The Thorn Birds
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Ralph de Bricassart, Meghann Cleary, Luke O'Neill, Fiona Cleary, Padraic Cleary, Francis Cleary, Dane O'Neill, Justine O'Neill
Setting:	Australia New Zealand Vatican City(Italy)

The Thorn Birds

Colleen McCullough

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 692 pages

Rating: 4.23 | 301878 Users | 5639 Reviews

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Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0380018179 (ISBN13: 9780380018178) The Thorn Birds is a robust, romantic saga of a singular family, the Clearys. It begins in the early part of this century, when Paddy Cleary moves his wife, Fiona, and their seven children to Drogheda, the vast Australian sheep station owned by his autocratic and childless older sister; and it ends more than half a century later, when the only survivor of the third generation, the brilliant actress Justine O'Neill, sets a course of life and love halfway around the world from her roots. The central figures in this enthralling story are the indomitable Meggie, the only Cleary daughter, and the one man she truly loves, the stunningly handsome and ambitious priest Ralph de Bricassart. Ralph's course moves him a long way indeed, from a remote Outback parish to the halls of the Vatican; and Meggie's except for a brief and miserable marriage elsewhere, is fixed to the Drogheda that is part of her bones - but distance does not dim their feelings though it shapes their lives. Wonderful characters people this book; strong and gentle, Paddy, hiding a private memory; dutiful Fiona, holding back love because it once betrayed her, violent, tormented Frank, and the other hardworking Cleary sons who give the boundless lands of Drogheda the energy and devotion most men save for women; Meggie; Ralph; and Meggie's children, Justine and Dane. And the land itself; stark, relentless in its demands, brilliant in its flowering, prey to gigantic cycles of drought and flood, rich when nature is bountiful, surreal like no other place on earth. (First Edition Jacket)

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Title	:	The Thorn Birds
Author	:	Colleen McCullough
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	25th Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 692 pages
Published	:	2002 by Avon Books (first published April 1977)
Categories	:	Religion. Christianity. Lds. Nonfiction. Church. Spirituality

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Magnificent! Well this was a trip down memory lane.. I read this over and over as a teenager. It was my first racy book. At the time it was the Meggie/Ralph relationship I was most focused on. And then Richard Chamberlain and Rachel Ward went and ruined it. They just werent how I saw Meggie and Ralph. So when I rated this from memory, I gave it a mediocre 3 star rating. Now I am older and wiser. I loved it all, but particularly enjoyed the evolution of the relationship between Fee and Meggie.

This beaut of a soap opera has been around for decades & for excellent reason. Epics have been forgotten & currently authors satisfy their readers (or not, as the case may be) with smaller stories & smaller lives.McCullough has the tenacity to include three generations in this sprawling saga, and as family portraits usually tell of differences between the generations PLUS the ties that bind them together & to a home, this one exactly does that in an extremely entertaining

I didn't read this book when it was popular (when I was in high school) because my mother wouldn't let me - because of the affair the Priest has. I was also banned from watching the made-for-t.v.-movie. Well, a few months ago she was getting rid of a bunch of books & asked me if I wanted any of them & The Thorn Birds was in there. I asked if I was allowed to read it now that I was 46 yrs. old???? I gave this book 5 stars because it immediately pulled me in & the characters were so

I LOVED this book, and until I read the last paragraph I couldn't figure out WHY! What was so utterly unexpected for me is that the reason I love this book is precisely the exact reason I would have hated just yesterday it seems?!!? If that makes ANY sense. I almost feel like I have a different outlook on life than I did one day ago...much less one year ago...but I didn't realize it until THIS book. This book is an impressive tale with all of life's elements present...in fact, it is a tale ABOUT

The book was a good love story, a young girl and an Irish priest romance together...I think I will read another of Colleen McCullough books...also I would like to see the old television series..

ONE OF THOSE BOOKS THAT IS GUARANTEED TO STAY WITH YOU💕💕✨ Popsugar Reading Challenge 2019✨ ✨✨A book about a family✨✨Upon finishing this book I felt empty. I seriously could not formulate a single thought and just had to sit there for a while, staring into space. You know, you've just finished a great book, when that happens! ❤ "There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart." THE THINGS I LOVED ❤Heartbreak: This was one serious heartbreaking book. It seemed nothing

This is one of the books I scorned for years. Romantic fiction - I used to think - is fluff for bimbos. Since I consider myself literate and intelligent (yeah, really!) I wouldn't touch this sort of book. Bizarrely, I was not ashamed to read even the most extreme - and extremely inane - crime fiction. ("After all, we all need to relax now and then." Hmmmph!)Well, now I'm older and wiser and more inclined to read books for enjoyment than for the pleasure of imagining how people will be impressed