The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough [FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION] 1978 • Avon

The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough

FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION [1978] AVON BOOKS

16th Avon mass market printing of this 70's bestseller.

Vintage paperback in very good condition.

A clean, tight and seemingly unread copy with some visible shelf wear to cover.

ABOUT THE BOOK

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.