# The Linnet Bird

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- Authors: [Linda Holeman](https://www.bookquiver.com/linda-holeman)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2004-09-06

## Description

'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.

## Editions

### The Linnet Bird

- Publisher: Headline Review
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-07-5538-911-7
- Published: 2011-09-01
- Language: en_GB

### The Linnet Bird

- Publisher: crown
- ISBN: 978-14-0009-740-1
- Pages: 432
- Published: 2006-01-24
- Language: en_US

### The Linnet Bird

- Publisher: headline
- ISBN: 978-07-5532-463-7
- Published: 2004-09-06
- Language: en_GB