The Thorn Birds

A saga of three generations of the indomitable Cleary family begins in the early 1900s when Paddy Cleary, a poor New Zealand farm laborer, moves his wife and children to the Australian sheep station owned by his wealthy sister, in a new edition of the classic novel of forbidden love between young Meggie Cleary and Father Ralph de Bricassart. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.