Languishing in the London home of her uncle, Chelsea Myles is offered an escape when she is asked to switch identities with a young woman on her way to an arranged marriage in Australia.

The bestselling Australian novel of all time, Thorn Birds is the sweeping saga of three generations of the Cleary family. Stoic matriarch Fee, her devoted husband, Paddy, and their headstrong daughter, Meggie, experience joy, sadness and magnificent triumph in the cruel Australian outback. With life's unpredictability, it is love that is their unifying thread, but it is a love shadowed by the anguish of forbidden passions. For Meggie loves Father...

Sent as Irish rebel convicts to Australia, Kelsey and her mother work towards getting back to Ireland. Upon her mother's death friends come forward to comfort and help Kelsey in many unexpected ways.

Miss Bailey Templeton arrives in the settlement of Sydney Cove, Australia to teach, much to the surprise of Captain Grant Hogan who had been expecting a man to fill the position, but she determines to fulfill her goal to reach the unruly children of the colony in spite of the opposition of those who think she should return to America.