In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I've ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination.

Mary & Tim - a 1996 adaptation of the novel Tim


Notes. In 1963 Colleen McCullough moved for four years to the United Kingdom; at the Great Ormond Street hospital in London Colleen McCullough met the chairman of the neurology department at Yale University who offered her a research associate job at Yale. Susannah Fullerton the president of the Jane Austen Society of Australia said Colleen McCullough "shuddered" that Elizabeth Bennet was rewritten as weak and Mr Darcy savage.