The Thorn Birds
Kindle Edition
HarperCollins · Ebook · October 13, 2009
“Beautiful….Compelling entertainment.” —New York Times One of the most beloved novels of all time, The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough’s sweeping family saga of dreams, titanic struggles, dark passions, and forbidden love in the Australian Outback, returns to enthrall a new generation.
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- Who it’s for
- A straightforward, absorbing historical romance with enough edge to keep it moving.
- Genres
- Family Sagas, 20th-Century Historical Romance, Faith & Fiction
- Published
- HarperCollins, October 13, 2009
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“Beautiful….Compelling entertainment.” —New York Times One of the most beloved novels of all time, The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough’s sweeping family saga of dreams, titanic struggles, dark passions, and forbidden love in the Australian Outback, returns to enthrall a new generation.
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The Thorn Birds is a chronicle of three generations of Clearys—an indomitable clan of ranchers carving lives from a beautiful, hard land while contending with the bitterness, frailty, and secrets that penetrate their family. It is a poignant love story, a powerful epic of struggle and sacrifice, a celebration of individuality and spirit. Most of all, it is the story of the Clearys' only daughter, Meggie, and the haunted priest, Father Ralph de Bricassart—and the intense joining of two hearts and souls over a lifetime, a relationship that dangerously oversteps sacred boundaries of ethics and dogma. “A heart-rending epic…truly marvelous.” —Chicago Tribune
Why It Clicks
A straightforward, absorbing historical romance with enough edge to keep it moving.
Come here for
- historical romance with an edge
- easy immersion, long-burn read
Expect
- category-familiar pleasures
- sustained narrative momentum
Where it sits
| Family Sagas | 45% |
|---|---|
| 20th-Century Historical Romance | 30% |
| Faith & Fiction | 24% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- American Plays
- Family Sagas
- World War II & Holocaust
- Literary Fiction
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- Faith & Fiction
- 20th-Century Historical Romance
- Romantic Comedy
- Thrillers
- Authors
- Colleen McCullough
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- October 13, 2009
- Format
- Ebook
- Reading lane
- American Plays