![]() ![]() You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.īoth comments and pings are currently closed. On Thursday, January 29th, 2015 at 10:38 am and is filed under Deaths. ![]() In that interview, looking ahead, she said she had an idea for another of her detective novels featuring Carmine Delmonico (the most recent, Sins of the Flesh, was released here a few months after Bittersweet), but she didn’t want to start it because “it would be terribly frustrating to get halfway through a book and fall off the perch.” As she told an interviewer in 2013, she felt uncomfortable returning to the genre that brought her the greatest success, but for last year’s Bittersweet, she said she had managed to construct an epic romance that could not be considered the “Son of Thorn Birds.” The books that followed included a series of historical novels set in classical Rome and another of detective stories. ![]() A generational saga set in Australia, the author drew on her own family background for the story. Because they are two sets of twins, the four Latimer sisters are as close as can be. She was 77.Ĭolleen McCullough wrote over 20 books since the Thorn Birds became a best seller, propelled to even greater success by a blockbuster TV series based on it. Read by Cat Gould In her first epic romantic novel since The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough weaves a sweeping story of two sets of twins - all trained as nurses but each with her own ambitions - stepping into womanhood in 1920s and 30s Australia. ![]() The author of the 1977 mega best seller, The Thorn Birds, and most recently, the novel Bittersweet, (S&S) has died Australia. ![]()
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