Book Description

Sometimes when he didn't know he was being watched Meggie would look at him and try desperately to imprint his face upon her brain's core ...And he would turn to find her watching him, a look in his eyes of haunted grief, a doomed look. She understood the implicit message, or thought she did; he must go, back to the Church and his duties. Never again with the same spirit, perhaps, but more able to serve. For only those who have slipped and fallen know the vicissitudes of the way ...'

About the Author

Colleen McCullough was born in Wellington, New South Wales　in 1937. A neuroscientist by training, she worked in hospitals　in Sydney and the UK before settling into ten years of research　and teaching in the Department of Neurology at the Yale　Medical School in the USA. In 1974 her first novel, Tim, was　published, followed by the international bestseller The Thorn　Birds in 1977. Colleen McCullough now lives with her husband　on Norfolk Island in the South Pacific.