# The Touch

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- Book: [The Touch](https://www.bookquiver.com/colleen-mccullough/the-touch) ([The Touch.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/colleen-mccullough/the-touch.md))
- Authors: [Colleen McCullough](https://www.bookquiver.com/colleen-mccullough)
- Publisher: arrow
- ISBN: 978-00-9928-099-6
- Pages: 656
- Published: 2004-11-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Let international bestselling author Colleen McCullough sweep you away with this enthralling, evocative and emotional saga of one woman's quest to come to terms with a new life. If you like Victoria Hislop, Lucinda Riley and Fiona Valpy, you'll love this! 'Fast-moving and immensely readable... Back to the open spaces, merciless climate and sheer pioneering stance of the magical THE THORN BIRDS, this book is a page turner from start to finish' -- Maeve Binchy 'A compelling, passionate and gritty saga that was well worth the wait' -- She 'A powerful saga' -- Mirror 'Absorbing' -- Sunday Telegraph 'I could put this book down. I was consumed with it' -- ***** Reader review 'This book is utterly compelling and quite simply, I loved it. I wanted to finish it, but, didn't want it to end. Beautifully written, descriptive passages. A truly Master author. Thank you' -- ***** Reader review 'One of the best reads I've had in years' -- ***** Reader review 'Thoroughly loved this book, I was hooked from the first page!' -- ***** Reader review ********************************************************************** Alexander Kinross is remembered in his native Scotland only as a shiftless boilermaker's apprentice. But when he writes from Australia to summon his bride, his relatives realize he is now a man to be reckoned with. Arriving in Sydney after a difficult voyage, sixteen-year-old Elizabeth Drummond meets her husband-to-be and discovers that he frightens and repels her. Isolated in Alexander's great house, Elizabeth finds that marriage does not prompt her husband to enlighten her about his past life - nor his present one, in which his mistress, the sensuous, tough, outspoken Ruby Costevan , still plays a part... Will she be able to forge a happy new life in this new world?