In 2022, The Thorn Birds was included on the " Big Jubilee Read" list of 70 books by Commonwealth authors, selected to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II. The novel was also adapted into a musical in 2009, The Thorn Birds Musical. It was criticized for inconsistencies with the original series.
Subsequently, a 1996 miniseries entitled The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years filled in a gap of 19 years in the middle of the novel. The novel was also adapted into an eponymous television miniseries during its 27–30 March 1983 run, it became the United States' second-highest rated miniseries of all time, behind Roots.
The novel is the best-selling book in Australian history, and has sold over 33 million copies worldwide. Set primarily on Drogheda-a fictional sheep station in the Australian Outback named after Drogheda, Ireland-the story focuses on the Cleary family and spans 1915 to 1969. The Thorn Birds is a 1977 novel by Australian author Colleen McCullough. The kind of book the word "blockbuster" was made for' Boston Globe 'Beautiful. truly marvellous' Chicago Tribune 'A perfect read. For Meggie loves Father Ralph de Bricassart, a man who wields enormous power within the Catholic Church.As powerful, moving and unforgettable as when it originally appeared, THE THORN BIRDS remains a novel to be read. With life's unpredictability, it is love that is their unifying thread, but it is a love shadowed by the anguish of forbidden passions. Stoic matriarch Fee, her devoted husband, Paddy, and their headstrong daughter, Meggie, experience joy, sadness and magnificent triumph in the cruel Australian outback. The bestselling Australian novel of all time, THORN BIRDS is the sweeping saga of three generations of the Cleary family. For Meggie loves Father Ralph de Bricassart, a man who wields enormous power within the Catholic.
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