7/7/2023 0 Comments Bittersweet mccullough![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book was turned into a popular UK television miniseries, with Richard Chamberlain playing Ralph and Rachel Ward as Meggie.Ĭol wrote 23 more books, but none came near the success of The Thorn Birds. Described by Germaine Greer as “the best bad book I have ever read”, it was the tale of the doomed love affair between a country girl, Meggie Cleary, and a priest, Ralph de Bricassart, set in “a typical settlement on the very edge of the back of beyond”. Colleen McCullough, who has died aged 77, found international fame as the author of The Thorn Birds, a 600-page romance that became the bestselling Australian novel of all time, with sales of 30m in dozens of languages. ![]()
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