Journal Entry 1 by tantan from Gympie, Queensland Australia on Wednesday, January 16, 2008

From the back cover:

Set in the United States in the not-too-distant future, Colleen McCullough's new novel traces the progress of a truly good man from obscurity to worldwide fame.

Dr Joshua Christian's work as a clinical psychologist daily presents him with people who are spiritually impoverished by too much change: political, climatic and ideological. Joshua's deep compassion and extraordinary personal magnetism have created a devout following among his patients in the relative backwater of a small Connecticut city. He yearns to reach out and help on a much larger scale.

Dr Judith Carriol, a brilliant senior official from the new Department of the Environment, recognises in Joshua the personification of her desire to influence the history of her country. Joshua presents as irresistible prospect to Judith, a woman obsessed with power but preferring to wield it anonymously.

Together Judith and Joshua embark upon a crusade designed to regenerate the nation's morale by radically changing the outlook of its people. Judith engineers and Joshua executes the plans.

Judith dreams up Joshua's tour across a country devastated by winter and it is she who provides Joshua with every resource to make his incredible journey a reality. But it is Joshua alone who transforms the tour into an epic pilgrimage that touches and renews millions, and as he reaches out to the cold hands and despairing hearts of the American people, his grateful followers come to see him as more than a man.

With the skill that has made her one of the world's best-loved and most popular storytellers, Colleen McCullough has written an extraordinary novel of powerful emotional intensity. Its shattering climax will haunt readers long after the final page is turned. 

Journal Entry 2 by tantan from Gympie, Queensland Australia on Sunday, January 27, 2008

Claimed by BellaMack in the Oz VBB. It will be heading off later this week. 

Journal Entry 3 by BellaMack from St Helens, Tasmania Australia on Monday, February 04, 2008

Thank you tantan, I havn't read a Colleen McCullough book for a few years so looking forward to this one :) 

Journal Entry 4 by BellaMack from St Helens, Tasmania Australia on Saturday, July 25, 2009

Available for selection 

Journal Entry 5 by BellaMack from St Helens, Tasmania Australia on Sunday, July 26, 2009

Reserved for feryl 

Journal Entry 6 by BellaMack from St Helens, Tasmania Australia on Wednesday, July 29, 2009

posting today 

Journal Entry 7 by Feryl from Sydney, New South Wales Australia on Monday, August 03, 2009

Received today in a parcel post satchel with several others from BellaMack's bookshelf cull. Thank you! :o)