num_pages: 531
description: ELEVENTH IMPRESSION. Dec. 1982 Harper Row jumbo mass market paperback, Colleen McCullough (Bittersweet: A Novel). The story of Meghann "Meggie" Cleary as she grows up in the Australian outback.
language: English
title: The Thorn Birds
titlecomplete: The Thorn Birds
characters: Francis "Frank" Cleary, Luke O'Neill, Rainer "Rain" Moerling Hartheim, Archbishop (later Cardinal) Vittorio di Contini-Verchese, Dane O'Neill, Luddie Mueller, Meghann "Meggie" Cleary, Fiona "Fee" Cleary, Hughie Cleary, Stuart "Stu" Cleary, Mary Elizabeth Cleary Carson, James and Patrick "Jims and Patsy" Cleary, Harold "Hal" Cleary, Bob Cleary, Jack Cleary, Padraic "Paddy" Cleary, Ralph de Bricassart, Anne Mueller, Justine O'Neill
genres: Fiction, Classics, Historical Romance, Historical, Drama, Historical Fiction, Romance, Adult, Australia, Novels
ratings_count: 344625
places: New Zealand, Vatican City, Outback, Australia
publisher: Harper & Row Publishers