Answers to some questions please? (Spoilers)

[Shae]

I've tried SO hard to finish this book, but unfortunately I just can't - it's just not holding my interest enough. I'm getting frustrated and have had to put it down.

However, I'd love to know what ultimately happens to Frank, and whether you find out who his real father was, and, subsequently, why Fee was always so cold i.e. due to having lost that first love?

Can anyone please enlighten me? Many thanks.

[Carolina]

Finish the novel, you'll regret it if you don't. It all comes full circle!

[Geraldine]

Frank ends up back home after a tragic sad life. Paddy was not his father, Fee's first love, a married politician was. We do not meet his father in the book.

[Shae]

Thanks Carrie and Geri. Carrie, I truly have tried and tried to finish the book, but by halfway I was losing interest and skipping entire sections (never a good sign!). I just found it so cumbersome and frustrating. Maybe I'll try again one day and enjoy it more, but this time just wasn't for me. Thanks :)

[Marilyn]

Not finish Thorn Birds because of loss of interest? Astonishing...

[Peri]

This makes me want to re-read it. I read it years ago and remember being very engrossed.

[Teddie]

I just re-read it. I remembered it as one of my all-time favorites when I read it many years ago. Although I would not classify it as such today, I still think it was a good book. I admit I skimmed a few paragraphs here and there. Guess my taste in books has changed some through the years.

[G.T.]

Teddie wrote: "I just re-read it. I remembered it as one of my all-time favorites when I read it many years ago. Although I would not classify it as such today, I still think it was a good book. I admit I skimmed..."


I've read this book many times at different ages. Life brings to all of us different experiences. We mature and come to understand more about the human condition. Therefore, re-reading this book at different ages can reveal things that were "missed" in the first reading.

[Teddie]

Well put. Totally agree with you, G.T.

[Simin]

I read it three times and enjoyed it very much