'Mary Horton is content with her comfortable, solitary existence . . . until she meets Tim. A beautiful young man with the mind of a child – a gentle outcast in a cruel, unbending world – he illuminates the darkness of Mary's days with his boyish innocence. And he will shatter the lonely, middle-aged spinster's respectable, ordered life with a forbidden promise of a very special love.' (Publication summary)
Tim
Colleen McCullough's Tim
( dir. Michael Pate
)
1979
Melbourne
:
Pisces Productions
,
1979
Z1284497
1979
single work
film/TV
The love story of a successful, middle-aged business woman and a young man with an intellectual disability.
Tim
2023
Strawberry Hills
:
Currency Press
,
2023
25475701
2023
single work
drama
'An unorthodox relationship develops between Mary, a career-driven business executive in her mid-50s, and Tim, a handsome 25-year-old labourer with a mild intellectual disability. Tim has grown up in a small but loving, working-class family who have tried to shelter him from the cruelness of the world. What begins as a chance meeting between them, soon develops into a life-changing relationship with shattering consequences.
'Tim is a new Australian play filled with love, loss and acceptance, which explores the importance of embracing differences, opening oneself to the fullness of life and the opportunities it has to offer.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Writing Disability in Australia:
| Type of disability | Developmental disability. |
| Type of character | Primary. |
| Point of view | Third person. |
