As vividlyportrayed by the veteran mezzo-soprano Felicity Palmer, the agonies and blasphemies of the prioress were painful and even shocking to witness.
In 1986, he published "The Fatal Shore, " an epic account of the founding of Australia that vividlyportrayed the austere origins of a land born of convicts transported to the antipodes aboard squalid vessels.
His enduring, popular dramas are graced by appealing and believable characters whose feelings are portrayed so deeply and so vividly that, as we look on, their emotions soon become ours as well, and their heartbreaks seem as wrenching as our own.