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ebook / ISBN-13: 9780755389117

Price: £9.99

ON SALE: 1st September 2011

Genre: Fiction & Related Items / Historical Fiction

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‘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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