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 THE TINKER'S GIRL

by

Catherine Cookson

Close to her fifteenth birthday, Jinnie Howlett, a reluctant inmate of a northern workhouse, was offered a position as a maid-of-all-work by the Shalemans at Toilet's Ridge Farm, a bleakly isolated farm near the Cumbrian border.

Before long, however, she was to discover she had exchanged one kind of drudgery for another, for the Shalemans -- Rose, invalid wife of Pug and mother to Bruce and Hal -- demanded much of her.  If it had not been for Bruce's willingness to defend her against the brutish Pug and Hal, she would have gladly returned to the workhouse.

Then she became acquainted with Richard Baxton-Powell, but eventually his over-familiarity made her realise that despite everything her future would owe more to the Shalemans than any outside influence.

The Tinker's Girl explores the life and fortunes of a spirited girl who lived in an age when it was customary for servants to know their place.

 BEHIND THE SUN

(Book 1 Convict Girls)

by

Deborah Challinor

Four women on a perilous voyage to a new world can rely only on their wits...and each other... 

Irreverent and streetwise prostitute Friday Woolfe is in London's notorious Newgate gaol, awaiting transportation. There, she meets three other girls: intelligent and opportunistic thief, Sarah Morgan, naive young Rachel Winter, and reliable and capable seamstress, Harriet Clarke.

 On the voyage to New South Wales their friendship becomes an unbreakable bond - but there are others on board who will change their lives forever.  Friday makes an implacable enemy of Bella Jackson, a vicious woman whose power seems undiminished by her arrest and transportation, while Harriet is taken under the wing of an idealistic doctor, James Downey.  Rachel catches the eye of a sinister passenger with more than honour on his mind, whose brutal assault leaves her life hanging in the balance. 

When they finally arrive on the other side of the world, they are confined to the grim and overcrowded Parramatta Female Factory.  But worse is to come as the threat of separation looms. 

In the land behind the sun, the only thing they have is each other...