I love it, and have done since I was a kid. There was this BBC mini-series called "The Children of Green Knowe" that used to get shown occasionally in Australia in the 80s, and one of the kids in that was called
Linnet (she was a ghost from the 1600s).
It's now going to be my main character's name in the sequel to The Damn Novel :D

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