Twelve thousand miles of it, to the other side of the world. And whether they came home again or not, they would belong neither here, nor there, for they would have lived on two continents and sampled two different ways of life.

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.