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The Tinker's Girl

By: Catherine Cookson
Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
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Summary

When young Jinnie Howlett’s widowed father, a tinker man, died a pauper, she was already a reluctant inmate of a northern workhouse. But she thought herself fortunate - the alternative might have meant she ended up on the streets.

When close to her 15th birthday and after years of toil and drudgery, she was at last offered a position as a maid-of-all-work. Jinnie’s employers were the Shalemans and her place of work Tollet’s Ridge Farm, a bleakly isolated and run-down sheep farm way out beyond Allendale and towards the Cumbrian border. Before long, she discovered she had exchanged one kind of drudgery for another, this time for the Shaleman family.

Rose, invalid wife of Pug and mother to Bruce and Hal, demanded every hour of the day and night of her. Fortunately Bruce soon recognized that there was more to this seemingly vulnerable girl, and it was he who would defend her against the taunts and harassment of the brutish Pug and Hal.

She became acquainted with Richard Baxton-Powell, who owed his life to Bruce, but when the persistent attention Richard paid her became too obtrusive, she was to understand that her growing confidence and maturity owed more to her life with the Shalemans than to any outside influence. It was then that Jinnie Howlett was suddenly thrust into womanhood, and the path to her own destiny became clear.

©2011 Catherine Cookson (P)2019 W. F. Howes Ltd
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Loved it!

Thoroughly enjoyed this from start to finish. Gripping in the last quarter! Good narrator too.

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A great book

If you enjoy period drama you'll love this book.
I have the paperback and I've read it twice! Fabulous read for those winter days when you just want to snuggle up.

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Brilliant

another great story with all the twists and turns you would expect from Catherine Cookson

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The story was marred by the lacklustre performance by Sophie Roberts. The characters didn't come alive for me and at many points I was aware that she was reading the story like it was a chore. Anne Dover does it so much better. She brings Catherine Cookson stories to life.

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Wonderful story

Liked the story and all the characters. Am listening to all the Catherine Cookson books that I can on Audible.

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Brilliant

What a brilliant story I loved from beginning to end and am looking for something similar now

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Enjoyable story

Thoroughly enjoyed this book so much so that I listened to it all in one day.

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Totally Captivating

Not published until after her death, this was a brilliant (if typical) Catherine Cookson novel. I'm really glad I read it - Highly Recommend

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Didn't enjoy the naration

This is a great story but for me was spolt by the voice of the narrator. I always enjoy the Georgdie twang most of the recordings use but this is bland

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not written by Cookson shame on trustees ruinin

g reputation by using computer stories which . Catherine would turn in her grave disgusting

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