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The Thorn Birds

Colleen McCullough · 1977

An epic romantic fiction novel set in Australia involving complex family and religious themes.

Tom Holland recommends it because it was brilliant and absolute catnip for a teenage boy interested in Rome.

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“so i've been looking forward to this since we started the rest is history because when i was a teenager i read a series of books by colleen mcculloch i think he wrote the thorn birds and she wrote this roman sequence in which the marius sulla rivalry played a huge part…”

Why: It was brilliant and absolute catnip for a teenage boy interested in Rome.

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