Year first published: 1995<\/p>\n
First Edition: No<\/p>\n
Condition: Good<\/p>\n
Binding: Paperback<\/p>\n
Pages: 382<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Close to her fifteenth birthday, Jennie Howlett, a reluctant inmate of a northern workhouse, was offered a position as a mai-of-all-work by the Shalemans at Toilet’s Ridge Farm, a bleakly isolated farm near the Cumbrian border.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Then she became acquainted with Richard Paxton-Powell, but eventually his over-familiarity made her realise that despite everything her future would owe more to the Shalemans than any outside influence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[22],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1155","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-fiction-c","8":"first","9":"instock","10":"shipping-taxable","11":"purchasable","12":"product-type-variable"},"yoast_head":"\n