Pat and I now live in different parts of the country but I think it’s high time I get Pat’s book back to her. I have no idea how the book came to be on my shelves. The copy I read belongs to my Mom’s friend Marge’s sister Pat who inscribed the date “4/78” under her name on the inside page. I was raised Lutheran but the entire family beyond my Mom, sister, and me were Catholic, so I understood the appeal of the forbidden nature of the story, but as a tomboy I had zero interest in romance. All I knew was that it was a love story between a priest and a women. When the book and TV mini-series were smash hits in the US I was about eleven or twelve. I did it! I finally read The Thorn Birds! Although I can’t say this book has been on my TBR list for a long time, I’ve often wondered about this story for decades.
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