{{Short description|Novel by Colleen McCullough}} {{italic title}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} [[File:TimNovel.jpg|thumb|First edition (publ. Harper & Row)]] '''''Tim''''' is a novel by Australian writer Colleen McCullough, published by Harper and Row<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=5jxOfw--EZcC ''Tim'']</ref> in 1974. Her literary agent was Frieda Fishbein.
It portrays the story of the developing relationship between an older, middle-class woman, Mary Horton, who lives on her own and a handsome, developmentally impaired 24-year-old gardener, Tim Melville, whom she hires. It inspired the 1979 film of the same name, starring Piper Laurie and Mel Gibson and the 1996 television film ''Mary & Tim'' starring Candice Bergen and Tom McCarthy.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117000/ ''Mary & Tim'' (1996)], IMDb</ref>
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