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The Tinker’s Girl
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Cumbria in the 1870s. Jinnie Howlett leaves the workhouse to become a servant on a remote farm, expecting hard work but finding cruelty and isolation. Her status as an orphan makes resistance dangerous, yet friendship and her own practical intelligence prevent the household from completely defining her future.
As Jinnie encounters affection, exploitation and the possibility of independence, she must decide which promises can be trusted. The novel follows a vulnerable girl’s movement from institutional control towards adulthood in a rural society where employment and personal freedom are inseparable.
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