The Book Those Who Sing in the Thorns by Colin McCullough

A sensual and touching love story. A love that overcomes years and kilometers, promises and laws!

The bestseller "Those Who Sing in the Thorns" by Australian writer Colleen McCullough is a true gem of world romantic prose. The total circulation of the book is 10 million copies, and the series based on this novel has been in second place in the ranking of the most popular films of all time and people for several decades. When, at the turn of the millennium, Australians chose the National Living Treasure, the great woman and great writer Colleen McCullough became it...

The only girl in a large family of hardworking Australian farmers, Maggie feels like an outsider from an early age. Only one person truly sympathizes with her childhood troubles - the Catholic priest Ralph de Bricassard. In the lonely girl's heart, a love that can challenge the very heavens settles...

Like a little bird singing its first and last song in the thorns, Maggie will carry her love for Ralph through life, suffering, separation and loss. She will steal the most precious thing from God. And she will be defeated when her rivals will not be monastic vows and self-denial, but human ambition and vanity. But ashes remain from the roses, the birdsong subsides - only love continues to live...