--- product_id: 4394140 title: "The Thorn Birds: A Beloved Epic Romance and Family Saga of Forbidden Love in the Australian Outback" price: "16039CFA" currency: XOF in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.sn/products/4394140-the-thorn-birds-a-beloved-epic-romance-and-family-saga store_origin: SN region: Senegal --- # Authentic Australian Outback setting Epic 3-generation saga Forbidden love & intense passion The Thorn Birds: A Beloved Epic Romance and Family Saga of Forbidden Love in the Australian Outback **Price:** 16039CFA **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🌟 Unlock the passion and power of a legendary love story that defines generations. ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Thorn Birds: A Beloved Epic Romance and Family Saga of Forbidden Love in the Australian Outback - **How much does it cost?** 16039CFA with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sn](https://www.desertcart.sn/products/4394140-the-thorn-birds-a-beloved-epic-romance-and-family-saga) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Immersive Outback Atmosphere:** Experience the rugged beauty and harsh realities of the Australian Outback like never before. - • **Award-Winning Bestseller Status:** Join over 16,700 readers who rated this classic 4.6/5 stars and propelled it to top ranks in multiple fiction categories. - • **Cultural Icon & Enduring Legacy:** Own a piece of literary history that inspired a beloved mini-series and continues to captivate new generations. - • **Complex, Unforgettable Characters:** Engage with deeply layered personalities and morally charged relationships that defy convention. - • **Timeless Multi-Generational Drama:** Dive into a sweeping family saga spanning three generations of the resilient Cleary clan. ## Overview The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough is a critically acclaimed epic romance and family saga set in the Australian Outback, chronicling three generations of the Cleary family. Celebrated for its rich storytelling, complex characters, and forbidden love narrative, it holds a top spot in religious and historical fiction categories with over 16,700 glowing reviews. ## Description “Beautiful….Compelling entertainment.” — New York Times One of the most beloved novels of all time, The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough’s sweeping family saga of dreams, titanic struggles, dark passions, and forbidden love in the Australian Outback, returns to enthrall a new generation. The Thorn Birds is a chronicle of three generations of Clearys—an indomitable clan of ranchers carving lives from a beautiful, hard land while contending with the bitterness, frailty, and secrets that penetrate their family. It is a poignant love story, a powerful epic of struggle and sacrifice, a celebration of individuality and spirit. Most of all, it is the story of the Clearys' only daughter, Meggie, and the haunted priest, Father Ralph de Bricassart—and the intense joining of two hearts and souls over a lifetime, a relationship that dangerously oversteps sacred boundaries of ethics and dogma. “A heart-rending epic…truly marvelous.” — Chicago Tribune Review: Still Good After All These Years - I read this when it first came out, and loved it. Now, all these years later it is still a story for the ages. The characters are complex and compelling, the story is beautiful, the prose is amazing. It’s as good today as the first time I read it. Review: Barbara and Richard...in the Mini-Series version.. Loving the Thorn Birds, a MUST have for your own collection. Seriously. - When writing, acting, music, and films had something to say and told us a story. I did not really understand the big deal about Barbara Stanwyck when I was 16 as I intensely watched this. 30 something years later, I began watching Turner Classic Movies and I taken the time to enjoy ALL of her films and I was made to appreciate the Thorn Birds even more. I felt for her soul all the way. She was in pain with love and lust and her eyes weren't old, her heart wasn't old, her desires weren't old, it was only her body. If Father Ralph met Stanwyck in her earlier day opposite Henry Fonda, I bet that Father De Brisscart would not have needed to feel pious and wholesome. I love Meg and Father's relationship the most. I had feels just like for much older men into their late 28s when I was 11 and in the 80s, it was a fantasy, but now it is a Scarlet Letter, a stalking and being a prisoner of life. Well executed film for TV and worth having in your permanent film collection. Also, I got the DVS version, but this does not matter, the seller was excellent and they did not disappoint, not a one, and also, the package was sealed in clear wrapping to show the care they took to sell this. Another awesome story from the 80s.....The book and the mini series will always be the best and not that new junk that they have the nerve to remake. Who ever remakes this should have "old Hollywood" return and break their knee caps and watch a LOT of excellent films so that they will learn how to cast, budget, use a camera, spend the money, and much more, It would be the best knee cap breaking these young Gen Y film makers can hope for. I really do mean break every bone in a dirt-bag's knee cap. No Joke. A great film or excellent performances would be left alone to enjoy and to savour. NO one should remake what has already been done. Gen Y...WHY? Watch this mini-series, it is better than a theatrical release and well worth keeping, I 'll never forget this from my HS teenage years. I loved those two together when Sidney Penny grows up and becomes Rachel Ward..now THAT is excellent casting. 80s women were real and beautiful, talented, not snotty and not blonde, dead goodness too many blondes, too loud and dress terrible for professionalism. Give us back the men who look like real men and women who inspired other women for being the strong silent type. Thank you Colleen MC Collough. You captured telling a story with Australian History, took our minds to a place we have never been before and created work for hundreds of perfectly, gorgeous talents people who did not need to be a ho or shout or to be on You Tube for attention. This was the real thing. Thank you. Buy it as the novel AND the film. either way, no waste of time shall you ever consider this art in motion to be. Long Live Rachel Wood and Richard Chamberlain in the film version and how Colleen pictured them exactly as they came to life on screen. ## Features - Colleen McCullough ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #13,749 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #31 in Religious Historical Fiction (Books) #41 in Feel-Good Fiction #48 in Religious Romance (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 16,736 Reviews | ## Images ![The Thorn Birds: A Beloved Epic Romance and Family Saga of Forbidden Love in the Australian Outback - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91ZexYP+QJL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Still Good After All These Years *by P***Z on June 17, 2026* I read this when it first came out, and loved it. Now, all these years later it is still a story for the ages. The characters are complex and compelling, the story is beautiful, the prose is amazing. It’s as good today as the first time I read it. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Barbara and Richard...in the Mini-Series version.. Loving the Thorn Birds, a MUST have for your own collection. Seriously. *by M***P on November 26, 2015* When writing, acting, music, and films had something to say and told us a story. I did not really understand the big deal about Barbara Stanwyck when I was 16 as I intensely watched this. 30 something years later, I began watching Turner Classic Movies and I taken the time to enjoy ALL of her films and I was made to appreciate the Thorn Birds even more. I felt for her soul all the way. She was in pain with love and lust and her eyes weren't old, her heart wasn't old, her desires weren't old, it was only her body. If Father Ralph met Stanwyck in her earlier day opposite Henry Fonda, I bet that Father De Brisscart would not have needed to feel pious and wholesome. I love Meg and Father's relationship the most. I had feels just like for much older men into their late 28s when I was 11 and in the 80s, it was a fantasy, but now it is a Scarlet Letter, a stalking and being a prisoner of life. Well executed film for TV and worth having in your permanent film collection. Also, I got the DVS version, but this does not matter, the seller was excellent and they did not disappoint, not a one, and also, the package was sealed in clear wrapping to show the care they took to sell this. Another awesome story from the 80s.....The book and the mini series will always be the best and not that new junk that they have the nerve to remake. Who ever remakes this should have "old Hollywood" return and break their knee caps and watch a LOT of excellent films so that they will learn how to cast, budget, use a camera, spend the money, and much more, It would be the best knee cap breaking these young Gen Y film makers can hope for. I really do mean break every bone in a dirt-bag's knee cap. No Joke. A great film or excellent performances would be left alone to enjoy and to savour. NO one should remake what has already been done. Gen Y...WHY? Watch this mini-series, it is better than a theatrical release and well worth keeping, I 'll never forget this from my HS teenage years. I loved those two together when Sidney Penny grows up and becomes Rachel Ward..now THAT is excellent casting. 80s women were real and beautiful, talented, not snotty and not blonde, dead goodness too many blondes, too loud and dress terrible for professionalism. Give us back the men who look like real men and women who inspired other women for being the strong silent type. Thank you Colleen MC Collough. You captured telling a story with Australian History, took our minds to a place we have never been before and created work for hundreds of perfectly, gorgeous talents people who did not need to be a ho or shout or to be on You Tube for attention. This was the real thing. Thank you. Buy it as the novel AND the film. either way, no waste of time shall you ever consider this art in motion to be. Long Live Rachel Wood and Richard Chamberlain in the film version and how Colleen pictured them exactly as they came to life on screen. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Thorn Birds - Love, Loss, and Australia *by G***B on March 30, 2015* I was 11 years old in 1983, when the sweeping epic “The Thorn Birds” was made into a mini-series. I was too young to watch it, but I knew it was out there. Everyone was talking about it – Richard Chamberlain was too much of a heartthrob for me to miss it completely. It took me over 30 years, but I have finally read the book by Colleen McCullough, and it was well worth the wait. The book spans 54 years in the life of an Australian family, the Clearys, focusing on the story of daughter Meggie, who is 4 years old at the beginning of the book. The reader soon meets Father Ralph de Bricassart, an ambitious, handsome priest who is 24 years Meggie’s senior. Then begins an unlikely love story that spans over half a decade of love and pain. McCullough’s characters come alive in the book. As a reader, I quickly became invested in them, especially Meggie. Her young naïve way of seeing the world contrasted nicely with Father Ralph’s world weary perspective. By the time she was born he had seen and done too much; she was a light to him, fresh air after suffocating. Until she started to grow up. As she blossomed into a young lady, his pure love for her was challenged; one of the central struggles in the book is the war between Father Ralph’s manhood and his priesthood. Readers can plot the passage of time through the well-developed growth and changing of the characters; in contrast, the land that calls to them all, the station of Drogheda in Australia, barely changes. McCullough’s vivid descriptions evoke the beauty and the cycle of the land: from plenty to drought and back again. This dependable background allows the characters to change and develop, creating a beautiful storyline. ## Frequently Bought Together - The Thorn Birds - Gone with the Wind --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.sn/products/4394140-the-thorn-birds-a-beloved-epic-romance-and-family-saga](https://www.desertcart.sn/products/4394140-the-thorn-birds-a-beloved-epic-romance-and-family-saga) --- *Product available on Desertcart Senegal* *Store origin: SN* *Last updated: 2026-08-23*