The Thorn Birds is a 1977 best-selling novel by Australian author Colleen McCullough. Set primarily on Drogheda – a fictional sheep station in the Australian Outback named after Drogheda, Ireland – the story focuses on the Cleary family and spans the years 1915 to 1969.
Thorn Birds
Colleen McCullough: Thorn Birds (2003, HarperCollins Publishers)
English language
Published 2003 by HarperCollins Publishers.
Subjects
- Fiction, sagas
- Fiction, romance, historical, general
- Catholic church, clergy, fiction
- Australia, fiction
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