{"id":85,"date":"2016-05-13T20:08:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T20:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.barbarahenderson.co.uk\/?page_id=85"},"modified":"2019-01-27T18:24:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T18:24:54","slug":"fir-for-luck","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.barbarahenderson.co.uk\/?page_id=85","title":{"rendered":"Fir for Luck"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/em>Check\u00a0out the BOOK TRAILER\u00a0HERE<\/a> !<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

Fir for Luck<\/strong> <\/span><\/em>is my historical children’s\u00a0novel about a feisty girl called Janet. She’s only twelve, but she finds herself in quite a scary position – she\u00a0is the only one standing between\u00a0her village and\u00a0the officer with the eviction writ. <\/span><\/p>\n

If she doesn’t do anything, her village will be cleared.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0She, her friends and her family will be homeless and they’ll have to leave behind all they have ever known. Their whole way of life\u00a0will be\u00a0lost.<\/span><\/p>\n

But what CAN she do?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

She chooses to fight.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The story of Janet’s village, Ceannabeinne on the North coast of Sutherland, is based on events which really took place there. I invented the characters of course, but the history meant I didn’t have to invent much of the plot. It all happened: the officer overwhelmed by the women, the riots, the soldiers, the last minute twist. It was a gift to a writer in search of a story, and I loved writing it! <\/span><\/p>\n

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By the way, the title comes from a strange habit people had in those days – they sometimes wound a sprig of fir tree (quite rare in those parts) into their hearth chains. They thought it might bring them luck. My book begins with Janet’s family doing just that.\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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The beautiful illustration by Nicola Poole which is featured \u00a0in the book.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fir for Luck<\/span> <\/em>was launched on 21st September 2016. It feels surreal to say it, but it actually reached No 1 in Amazon’s chart for young people’s historical fiction set in Europe! Here is the pic to prove it!<\/span><\/p>\n

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As I mentioned above, there is a book trailer<\/strong> for Fir for Luck<\/strong> <\/em>. We did some filming on location in Ceannabeinne, as well as in the Strathnaver Museum in Bettyhill.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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A little teaser image for you. Not quite Hollywood, but exciting all the same!<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Check\u00a0out the BOOK TRAILER\u00a0HERE ! Fir for Luck is my historical children’s\u00a0novel about a feisty girl called Janet. She’s only twelve, but she finds herself in quite a scary position – she\u00a0is the only one standing between\u00a0her village and\u00a0the officer with the eviction writ. If she doesn’t do anything, her village will be cleared. \u00a0She, … Continue reading Fir for Luck<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-85","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barbarahenderson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barbarahenderson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barbarahenderson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barbarahenderson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barbarahenderson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.barbarahenderson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"https:\/\/www.barbarahenderson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barbarahenderson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}