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'Warm, witty and sharp as a box of tacks, Colleen McCullough has an irrepressibly positive attitude toward life. She talks from her Norfolk Island home to Maureen Eppen about preferring money to literary acclaim, the grimness of life during the Depression as outlined in her new novel, and how beauty is not essential for a woman to fascinate a man.' (Publication abstract)