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The Touch
a powerful, sweeping family saga from the international bestselling author of The Thorn Birds
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Artikel-Nr:
9780099280996
Veröffentl:
2004
Erscheinungsdatum:
04.11.2004
Seiten:
656
Autor:
Colleen Mccullough
Gewicht:
334 g
Format:
178x111x40 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
McCullough, Colleen
Colleen McCullough was born in Australia. A neurophysiologist, she established the department of neurophysiology at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, then worked as a researcher and teacher at Yale Medical School for ten years.
Her writing career began with the publication of Tim, followed by The Thorn Birds, a record-breaking international bestseller. The author of over ten other novels, including the acclaimed 'Masters of Rome' series, Dr McCullough also wrote lyrics for musical theatre.
Until her death in 2015 she lived on Norfolk Island in the Pacific with her husband.
'Fast-moving and immensely readable ... a page turner from start to finish' Maeve BinchyAlexander Kinross is remembered in his native Scotland only as a shiftless boilermaker's apprentice. But when he writes from Australia to summon his bride, his relatives realize he is now a man to be reckoned with. Arriving in Sydney after a difficult voyage, sixteen-year-old Elizabeth Drummond meets her husband-to-be and discovers that he frightens and repels her. And, isolated in Alexander's great house, Elizabeth finds that marriage does not prompt her husband to enlighten her about his past life - nor his present one, in which his mistress, the sensuous, tough, outspoken Ruby Costevan, still plays a part