Not to be confused with the Korean drama of the same name. Has been described as the Australian Gone with the Wind, and with good reason.
Not just a successful book in its own right (published in 1977) but also adapted in 1983 into the second highest-rated American mini-series ever, Colleen McCullough's The Thorn Birds branches over 50 years of the 20th century and focuses on the Cleary family, their home - a fictional sheep station called Drogheda - and the forbidden love between the daughter of the family, Meggie, and Ralph de Bricassart, an ambitious Catholic priest. is bought only at the cost of great pain. The thorn bird pays its life for just one song, but the whole world stills to listen, and God in his heaven smiles. But, as it dies, it rises above its own agony, to outsing the lark and the nightingale. And singing, it impales itself on the longest, sharpest thorn. more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves its nest, it searches for a thorn tree. a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life.
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