5/12/2023 0 Comments The thorn birds book 1977![]() ![]() You feel sorry for them when something bad happens. You fear with them, you rejoice with them. The characters come alive in a way that makes you feel you know them personally. The story touches almost every topic you can imagine, well, there are over 700 pages, so there is space for a lot of drama. But the main story is told in New Zealand, how a family settles in a strange country and goes through all the hardships you can imagine. The story of the Cleary family over two generations coming from New Zealand to Australia in the early Twenties of the last century and also moves to London and Rome. I think we can easily call this book an epic saga. I wanted to reread the novel for ages and now I finally achieved that. However, I am sure that I read it in German at the time because I wasn't able to get English books that easily back then. I read this book years ago, shortly after the mini series came out in 1983. McCulloch, Colleen "The Thorn Birds" - 1977 ![]()
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