The Linnet Bird

<p>''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...''<br><br>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 ...<br><br>An unforgettable book, richly descriptive and mesmerising from the start, <i>The Linnet Bird</i> 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 thin a once-in-a-lifetime read.</p>