Suddenly the thought that the end of her life was imminent shocked him; it was one thing to pity someone he didn't know, quite another to face the same dilemma with someone he knew intimately. That was the trouble with beds. They turned strangers into intimates more quickly than ten years of polite teas in parlours.

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.