Nicole Kidman biography alludes to her 'three great loves'

A new Nicole Kidman biography claims she has had three great loves in her life.

It names two of those loves as Tom Cruise, and Australian actor Tom Burlinson whom she met on the set of an early film called Windrider.

But Nicole Kidman: The Biography by Tim Ewbank and Stafford Hildred doesn't reveal the identity of her third great love.

The book charts Kidman's life, from her childhood in Sydney, reports the Australian Sunday Telegraph.

It speculates that Kidman's third great love could be one of two boyfriends from her teenage years.

Her first teenage romance was with a carpenter and surfer named Doug, whom her parents allowed to stay over at the family home.

The biography also tells how she left home at 17 to live briefly with a mystery man in the Netherlands, and even bought a gown which she dreamed she would wear to marry her lover.