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A sensual and touching love story. A love that overcomes years and kilometres, vows and laws!

The bestseller The Thornsongers by Australian writer Colleen McCullough is a true gem of world romantic prose. The book has sold 10 million copies, and the film series based on this novel has been ranked second in the ranking of the most popular films of all time for several decades. And when Australians chose their National Living Treasure at the turn of the millennium, it was a great woman and a great writer, Colleen McCullough...

The only girl in a large family of hardworking Australian farmers, Maggie feels redundant from an early age. The only person who truly sympathises with her childhood troubles is the Catholic priest Ralph de Bricassard. In the lonely girl's heart, a love settles that can challenge heaven itself...

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 fail when her rivals are not monastic vows and self-denial, but human ambition and vanity. But the roses remain ashes, the birds singing fades away - only love continues to live...