THE TINNER'S DAUGHTER

As the nineteenth century inches to a close, it is time for Carrie Trimble to leave the familiar Terrace on its windswept cliff and go into service in Penzance. Merry, hardworking Carrie soon adapts to her employers' little peculiarities, Miss Limmon's sourness and her friend Dolly's strong-smelling links with the fishing industry. Her own guilty connection with a Newlyn artist proves somewhat harder to forget, however. Even when she meets Ernie, and has to adapt to the even stranger life of a clayer's wife over at St Austell, Carrie always keeps Penvarris in her heart - and the enigmatic Frenchman she used to meet on the cliff-path there. As the years pass, Carrie faces hardship and personal loss with generosity and fortitude, and never hints at the sacrifice she has made. Only when the monstrous upheaval of war rocks the very roots of the whole community, might Carrie get a second chance to seize the happiness that passed her by ... Set against the rugged backdrop of rural Cornwall, The Tinner's Daughter is an absorbing, large-hearted portrait of a mining community.

(This book is also available as an audio cassette)

REVIEWS

'The narrative flows easily, the characters leap from the page'
HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY REVIEW

'Thoroughly researched and very well written. . . You cannot help but become involved in the lives of the characters. . . Rosemary Aitken, whose grandfather was killed in the Levant tin mine disaster of 1919, writes with authority, authenticity and acuity, making the promise of her future books an eagerly awaited treat'
CORNISH WORLD