The linnet bird

England during the Victorian era was no place for a poor twelve year old girl with no mother, for money her father sells her for sex. Using her wit and cunning and with a doctor she has befriended she escapes her circumstances.  She reinvents herself as a middle class lady and boards the "first fleet" a ship bound for India, where many a middle class lady journeys in search of a husband.
Unfortunately for Linney she encounters Somers Ingram who has it in for her and knows of her past so she is blackmailed into marry a brutal man and her life is no better than the one she left behind.  As an adult Linney uses her intelligence and courage to rise above the situation and make a life for herself.




Linda Holeman
Crown Publishing Group
c2006
Reading Level:  Adult Fiction
Genre:  Domestic Fiction,  Historical Fiction. Love story, Autobiography, Adult literature
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