Colleen McCullough
Author
Language
English
Description
Mary Bennet, relegated to the role of caretaker after her sisters marry and set up their own households, is freed with the unexpected death of her mother, and having matured into a beauty over the years, declares her independence and sets out to make her mark on the world.
2) The touch
Author
Language
English
Description
Not since The Thorn Birds has Colleen McCullough written a novel of such broad appeal about a family and the Australian experience. When Alexander Kinross -- remembered in his native Scotland only as a shiftless boilermaker's apprentice and godless rebel -- summons his bride Elizabeth Drummond to Australia, his Scottish relatives realize that Kinross has made a fortune in the goldfields and is now a man to be reckoned with. The intimacies of marriage...