by Colleen McCullough · Círculo de Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422629252
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«Las señoritas de Missalonghi» is a romantic novel by Colleen McCullough, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (174 pages, in Spanish).
The novel is set in a small Australian town, where Missy Wright faces a dull existence on the threshold of maturity. The arrival of a stranger, John Smith, stirs her dormant hopes and confronts her with the possibility of love, in a story with touches of local color and fairy tale.
Translation by Marita Osés and illustrations by Peter Chapman. This edition, published in Barcelona in 1989, translates «The Ladies of Missalonghi» (1987).
Reading for those seeking romantic novels with historical settings, featuring a female protagonist who discovers love in maturity.
Colleen McCullough was an Australian author. Raised in Sydney, she trained as a neurophysiologist and spent her early career working at hospitals and universities in Australia and overseas. In 1974, while working as a research assistant at the Yale School of Medicine, she published her first novel Tim. Her second novel, The Thorn Birds, was published in 1977 and became an international bestseller. It sold more than 30 million copies worldwide and was adapted into a successful television miniseries.
