She told fortunes for a living. It's a wacky book and was great fun to write. It is very much a look at what life was like for women in Australia in the 1960's.

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.