{"id":15,"date":"2012-03-11T22:03:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T22:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lindaholeman.com\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2025-05-26T02:45:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T02:45:43","slug":"in-a-far-country","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lindaholeman.com\/?page_id=15","title":{"rendered":"In a Far Country"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From the jacket:<\/b>
\nPree Fincastle, daughter of impoverished British missionaries in India, is left alone and destitute when tragedy strikes. \u00a0 Turned away by the Church, she embarks on a journey in search of Kai, the son of her mother\u2019s ayah, and the only person she can trust.\u00a0 But Kai is not the man Pree thought he was, and the secrets he holds will unlock the door to another world, another time \u2013 and, shockingly, another life.<\/p>\n

Haunting, powerful, and heartbreaking, In a Far Country tells of an enthralling journey.\u00a0 From the whispering Ravi River to the bustling Grand Trunk Road, from the cantonments of Lahore to the bazaars of Peshawar, this is a breathtaking story of penury and prostitution, of tragedy and bloodshed, of secrets and love. But ultimately it is a story of hope; a story that, once read, will never be forgotten.<\/p>\n

The Inspiration Behind the Prose<\/h3>\n

The idea of \u201clost children\u201d is particularly poignant to me, and is one of my fictional themes. It\u2019s been reflected in other novels I\u2019ve written, especially in the young adult genre. In Promise Song I wrote about Home children sent from the UK to Canada, alone, to spend lives of hardship on isolated farms. In Search of the Moon King\u2019s Daughter I wrote of the plight of chimney sweeps, little abandoned or stolen boys who often didn\u2019t outlive their fifth birthday. And here it is again, rearing its head in In a Far Country. Although this is an adult novel, with very adult themes, I started with the idea of the children separated from their parents and sometimes lost in the Sepoy Uprising in India in 1847.
\nIncluded in this novel is a secondary theme: family secrets. We all have them. Some secrets are long-buried and almost forgotten, only nudging to the surface when someone will not stop questioning. And other secrets are public knowledge, but through shame or confusion the family carries an unspoken rule, never acknowledging or speaking of a \u00a0person or situation.<\/p>\n

This is this last of the three books which I loosely refer to as my \u201cIndian trilogy.\u201d They\u2019re not a trilogy in the true sense in that each of the three books, The Linnet Bird, The Moonlit Cage, and now In a Far Country, are completely stand-alone. And yet if a reader starts with the first book, which begins in Liverpool in 1823, and moves on through to the third, ending in Bombay in 1885, the link between the novels will be uncovered.
\n– Linda Holeman<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nIn a Far Country Book Launch
\nWinnipeg, MB<\/p>\n

Reviews<\/h3>\n

“I knew immediately that I would enjoy this book, and I did, all 500 pages…I could see a resemblance to that other epic, Gone with the Wind. It is a gripping story…the threads of the story are very cleverly intertwined.\u00a0 The descriptions of India and its people are so vivid I could almost smell the country.\u00a0 There is romance, drama, history and a smattering of the thriller about this well-crafted tale.\u00a0 A great holiday read if that description does not diminish a very clever, beautifully written roller coaster of a tale.”
\n– New Books, UK<\/p>\n

“…it drew me in. I’d recommend it…it gets into your soul and grips you to the end.”
\n– Review of the Fortnight, Yours Magazine, UK<\/p>\n

“In a Far Country is a magnificent, pageturner of a novel that will keep readers riveted.”
\n– Shropshire Star, UK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From the jacket: Pree Fincastle, daughter of impoverished British missionaries in India, is left alone and destitute when tragedy strikes. \u00a0 Turned away by the Church, she embarks on a journey in search of Kai, the son of her mother\u2019s ayah, and the only person she can trust.\u00a0 But Kai is not the man Pree […]","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":73,"parent":28,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"novel.php","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindaholeman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindaholeman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindaholeman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholeman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholeman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholeman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4031,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholeman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/4031"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholeman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholeman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindaholeman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}