The wonderful Australian author Colleen McCullough has died at the age of 77 in the Norfolk Island Hospital.
McCullough had lived on Norfolk Island since the 1980's and had married a local man Ric Robinson.
I greatly enjoyed her books The Thorn Birds, Tim, An Indecent Obsession and others.
What an intelligent woman she was - a neuroscientist by day and an author by night for many years.
Link to the ABC Article:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-2...h-dies/6055952