Colleen McCullough is best known as the author of The Thorn Birds, a popular generational saga set in Australia that made publishing history as an international bestseller. Though she earned a reputation as a romance writer with this novel and Tim, McCullough has produced a diverse body of fiction in several genres, notably the psychological novel An Indecent Obsession, the dystopic fantasy A Creed for the Third Millennium, and an ambitious series of historical novels set in ancient Rome beginning with The First Man in Rome. While at Yale, McCullough wrote Tim and The Thorn Birds in the evening hours after work, both of which she sought to publish as a source of additional income. Tim portrays the story of the developing relationship between an older, middle-class woman, Mary Horton, who lives on her own. Mary Horton is a successful career woman in her forties, presenting a determinedly unadorned and self-contained image to the outside world in the belief that she can live without friendship and love. Tim Melville is a young man with the physical beauty, power and grace of the classical ideal, but he has the mind of a child. Mary Horton hires Tim Melville as a gardener. They are drawn to one another from their first chance meeting, enjoying a growing friendship which, sadly, arouses suspicion in the minds of those who wish to protect Tim… You can listen online to free English audiobook “Tim” by Colleen McCullough on our website.
