Hardcover first edition of the 1977 novel The Thorn Birds by Australian author Colleen McCullough.

The story is an epic that follows three generations of the Cleary family on a fictional Australian sheep station called Drogheda, spanning the years 1915 to 1969.

It is a poignant love story, most notably of the forbidden love between the only daughter, Meggie, and a Catholic priest named Ralph de Bricassart.