Tilly Trotter isn't like the other girls in the villages of County Durham. Tall and coltish, she's not afraid of taking on 'man's work' to help out the grandparents who raised her.... more
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Advantages: Best Catherine Cookson novel -ever! Disadvantages: none
...Catherine Cookson and recently read Tilly Trotter.
I was engrosed in this novel and genuinely coudn't put it down! The story is excellent and I was enchanted! An amazing story!
The great thing is that there follows two more novels: Catherine Cookson Married and Catherine Cookson Widowed - you think the titles gives the stories away, but that's not quite true!
I enjoyed "Tilly Trotter" so much, I doubted the follow "Tilly Trotter Married" could ... ...- even the sequel "Widowed" was equally addictive.
Once you've read the book don't forget to watch the film. It's around three hours long but unlike most adapted films, the producers did not edit half the story out! The film was exactualy how I imagined the characters and scenes to be like - that makes catherine cookson an excellent story teller! ...
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Advantages: Opens up the readers mind to hardships Disadvantages: That these things really happen
...story is set around County Durham and you learn to cry and
laugh at the things that happen to Tilly Trotter.Be warned if you
read the books before going to bed you will be sitting up to the
early hours of the morning wanting to find out what happens next. ...
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Tilly Trotter isn't like the other girls in the villages of County Durham. Tall and coltish, she's not afraid of taking on 'man's work' to help out the grandparents who raised her. There's an unusual beauty to her too -- a beauty that's envied by the local women and lusted after by the men. But for all the attention Tilly only loves one man, farmer Simon Bentwood, and she's heartbroken to discover that he's betrothed to another. But there are even harder times ahead for Tilly. A spurned suitor takes a terrible revenge. Idle gossip brands her a witch. A betrayal forces her into the cruel drudgery of the local mine and puts her life in danger. But Tilly refuses to let her spirit be broken -- determined that all this will serve only to make her stronger!
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