Tilly Trotter wed
By: Catherine Cookson
Publisher: Headline
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9780755340972; 9780755334858
Subjects: Tilly Trotter (Fictitious character); Fiction
Description: Domestic fiction. A classic tale from the legendary storyteller. Tilly Trotter has devotedly served Mark Sopwith at Highfield Manor for twelve years. His wife in all but name, theirs is a scandalous yet happy arrangement. But when Mark dies Tilly is left pregnant with his illegitimate child. Cast out of the manor house by Mark's spiteful grown-up daughter, Tilly is forced to face the prejudices of the local village. No stranger to hardship, she makes do as best she can but when a villager's vicious attack leaves her baby son, Willy, half blind she knows that it's time to leave her native Tyneside. A new love seems to offer an escape and so she follows her heart to America, sure that this will be the beginning of a better life. But new perils await Tilly across the ocean.
Notes: Originally published in Great Britain in 1981.