The Linnet Bird - Softcover

Holeman, Linda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0755324633 ISBN 13: 9780755324637

Publisher: Headline, 2004

Synopsis

'For you, I will write of it all - part truth, part memory, part nightmare - my life, the one that started so long ago, in a place so far from here...'

India, 1839: Linny Gow, a respectable young wife and mother, settles down to write her life story. To outside appearances Linny is the perfect Colonial wife: beautiful, gracious, subservient. But appearances can be very deceptive ...

An unforgettable book, richly descriptive and mesmerising from the start, The Linnet Bird is the spellbinding story of the journey of Linny Gow - child prostitute turned social climber turned colonial wife turned adventuress. Frequently disturbing, often moving and always enthralling, it is that rare thing: a once-in-a-lifetime read.

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Review:

A stirring tale of one woman's search for personal fulfilment (Woman & Home)

This is a sweeping, unputdownable saga (think The Thorn Birds and Gone with the Wind) that you'll probably want to tell all your friends about (Woman)

Linny's talent for survival makes for compulsive reading. This Canadian writer's first adult novel succeeds in being more than just a historical saga; it is a rites-of-passage tale with a very convincing and resourceful heroine. (The Lady)

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'Sheer bliss ... A superb read in every way, exciting, moving, with a fantastic and unpredictable plot' Lesley Pearse

About this edition

• Publisher: Headline
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0755324633
• ISBN 13: 9780755324637
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512