Colleen McCullough
4 SeriesColleen McCullough, an Australian author, is renowned for her historical fiction, suspense, and fantasy novels, including the Masters of Rome and Carmine Delmonico series. Prior to her writing career, she worked as a neuroscientist at Yale Medical School's Department of Neurology for ten years, during which she wrote her first two books. Originally from Wellington, New South Wales, McCullough eventually settled on Norfolk Island, where she met her husband, Ric Robinson.
In "Tim" by Colleen McCullough, Mary Horton, a content middle-aged single woman, meets Tim, a handsome young man with a child-like mind. Tim, a gentle outcast, brings joy and innocence into Mary's life. Their unique bond challenges Mary's routine existence, offering her the promise of a forbidden love. This relationship transforms her respectable, solitary life into something unexpectedly special.
