by Colleen McCullough

Colleen McCullough sets this novel in Australia--the locale for her immensely popular THE THORN BIRDS--to tell the story of a happily married family man, a tavern-keeper in England, whose life changes when a young woman leads him astray. He loses his family and his livelihood, finds his life in danger, and is deported to Australia's Botany Bay, where he is ultimately able, against the odds, to begin again.