"When we press the thorn to our chest we know, we understand, and still we do it."
If you DON'T know The Thorn Birds, then you've been living under a rock. Colleen McCullough basically created a masterpiece spanning three generations of women who come to work on a sheep farm in Australia, but the world doesn't end there since we also travel to exotic locations, the Vatican, and we got to see the television show with Richard Chamberlain. Honestly, the love story between the woman and the priest is one you can pick up at any time and you'll probably love it, but it has some added benefits during the fall season, like images of scorching sun and blue, blue sea.
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. 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.
(from Goodreads)
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