Just before her fifteenth birthday Jinnie Howlett is offered a position as maid-of-all-work at a farm near the Cumbrian border. She hopes this will be a welcome relief from the workhouse she knows all too well. But when she meets her brutish employers Jinnie realises one life of drudgery has been exchanged for another. She is grateful when one of the sons befriends her, but it isn't long before Jinnie sees how tempting life is beyond her place of work.. . Set in the early 1870s, The Tinker's Girl is a delightful read, brilliantly capturing the life & fortunes of a spirited servant girl.