Colleen McCullough Summary

Colleen McCullough's 1977 novel, The Thorn Birds, became an international publishing sensation as its sales climbed past the seven-million mark. This saga of three generations in an Irish Catholic fam... Read more

Below, Mitchell offers an unfavorable review of A Creed for the Third Millennium. We're pushing the fast-forward button here to 2032–33—not quite 50 years from now. But when yo... Read more

In the following review, Grimstad provides a brief plot summary of An Indecent Obsession and comments that the novel lacks complexity. In her third novel, the author of the large-canvas epic The Th... Read more

Critical Essay by Publishers Weekly This first novel of awakenings [Tim] is a lovely and refreshing addition to tales of love. It is also, however, a story with a difference, one that might be charac... Read more

Critical Essay by Joanne Greenberg Ward X [the setting for "An Indecent Obsession"] has reached a certain balance with the help of a nurse-catalyst, Sister Honour Langtry, who initially... Read more

Critical Essay by Thomas E. Helm One would not describe An Indecent Obsession as spellbinding, nor think of Australian novelist Colleen McCullough's treatment here of an army nurse assigned to... Read more

Critical Essay by Margaret Ferrari Tim is a simple, effective first novel by Colleen McCullough whose native Australia serves as the book's setting. The novel is direct rather than subtle. ... Read more