Since I loved the book, "The Thornbirds* by Colleen McCullough, I decided to read this as well. This story is set in Australia and is about a spinster, Mary Horton, who is in her 40's. Wealthy through her own hard efforts, solitary, plain and believing that she needs neither friends nor love, finding reward enough in her comfortable home, her garden, her Bentley, the beach cottage, her job and investments have brought her and in books read and music listened to in solitude. There is no hunger in her for what she has missed. That is until she sees Tim Melville, unskilled laborer, age 25, the son of Ron and Eame as the firstborn gift of their marriage. The face, the body, the grace of a Greek god, fair and flawless - but not the intellect to match it. Sharing what happens to Tim and Mary makes one realize it is we ourselves who set boundaries on what is possible. They show us horizons instead of boundaries.
****Rated 4/5. I loved this book. It is every mature woman's fantasty really. Mary and Tim have a very happy relationship over the years in spite of the age difference which is really not all that many years when you think about it.
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