Twelve thousand miles of it, to the other side of the world… - Colleen McCullough

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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.

Colleen McCullough

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Colleen McCullough AO (1 June 1937 – 29 January 2015) is an internationally acclaimed Australian author. She was born in Wellington in central west New South Wales.

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Birth Name: Colleen Margaretta McCullough

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