# Tim (novel)

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{{Short description|Novel by Colleen McCullough}}
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[[File:TimNovel.jpg|thumb|First edition (publ. [Harper & Row](/source/Harper_%26_Row))]]
'''''Tim''''' is a novel by [Australia](/source/Australia)n writer [Colleen McCullough](/source/Colleen_McCullough), published by [Harper and Row](/source/Harper_and_Row)<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=5jxOfw--EZcC ''Tim'']</ref> in [1974](/source/1974_in_literature). Her literary agent was [Frieda Fishbein](/source/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](/source/mental_retardation) 24-year-old gardener, Tim Melville, whom she hires. 
It inspired the 1979 [film of the same name](/source/Tim_(film)), starring [Piper Laurie](/source/Piper_Laurie) and [Mel Gibson](/source/Mel_Gibson) and the 1996 [television film](/source/television_film) ''[Mary & Tim](/source/Mary_%26_Tim)'' starring [Candice Bergen](/source/Candice_Bergen) and [Tom McCarthy](/source/Tom_McCarthy_(director)).<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117000/ ''Mary & Tim'' (1996)], IMDb</ref>

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Category:1974 Australian novels
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