Edda and Grace are 20 months older than Tufts and Kitty. With the same biological father but two mothers, the four Australian sisters in Bittersweet are comprised of two sets of twins. The success of her novels allowed her to give up medicine and write full time. Instead, she studied neuroscience in Sydney and eventually at Yale.
McCullough herself was interested in medical school but developed an allergy to the surgical soap. The book proved so popular, it was listed by the British public at No. The Aussie McCullough is perhaps best known for her novel (and subsequent television miniseries) The Thorn Birds, a saga of forbidden love between a woman and a priest. However, even the sweetness of their love for each other cannot outweigh the bitterness of the compromises life forces them to make. They all embark on the career for their own reasons, but the one constant is their love for each other, and this drives the storytelling. (Aug.“Nothing is so sweet that there is no tinge of bitter in it.” So concludes Bittersweet, Colleen McCullough’s tale of four sisters who take one of the few professional avenues open to them in the early 20th century: nursing. Agent: Michael Carlisle, Inkwell Management. McCullough’s richly drawn characters grab hold of the heartstrings from the beginning of their journey through early-20th-century Australia, and prove that, even when choices are not in wide supply, happiness is attainable-even if, at times, it is bittersweet.
No matter what befalls them, they remain fiercely loyal to each other. As each sister finds her path in life, though, one thing remains clear: family means everything to these women. Each finds love, of a sort, and tragedy is not in short supply-the Great Depression hits one sister’s husband is lost another’s is cast off miscarriages occur. The four leave their home in the small New South Wales town of Corunda, each with different goals: Grace wants to be a wife and mother Tufts wants independence, Kitty wants to be known for more than her beauty, and Edda longs to be a doctor. Since career options for women are sparse, the sisters enter nursing school, encouraged by their father, the Reverend Thomas Latimer. Edda and Grace are twins, as are Heather (dubbed Tufts) and Katherine, (called Kitty). In this sweeping historical saga, McCullough ( The Thorn Birds) explores the lives and loves of four sisters in 1920s Australia.
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