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Sat 11 Nov 2002A boy's own taleFICTION: Thomas  Kenneally's latest novel in what has been a prodigious output is a strangely old-fashioned affair. The cover would have you believe that it is a World War two take on The Thornbirds, Colleen McCulloch's steamy 1970s "what the bishop did" bestseller. It shows a Mills and Boon close-up of a couple's kiss, the woman's hand prominently displaying a wedding ring with a titillating caption - what drives some to God, some to adultery and others to kill?