Birds in the Thorn

Since its inception, this captivating story has enchanted millions of readers. In it, the Australian novelist depicts more than half a century in the life of the Cleary farming family, whose members move from humble beginnings to a wealthy homestead in the Australian outback. From a wide circle of heroes and storylines that take the reader into the Australian bush, to the battlefields of the Second World War and into Vatican ecclesiastical circles, the unforgettable characters of farmer's daughter Meggie and the young priest Ralph, who are fatefully bound by a hidden love affair, come to the fore.