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Tilly Trotter
bookshelves: published-1980, film-only, winter-20132014, britain-england, county-durham, lifestyles-deathstyles, victoriana, period-piece
Read from February 09 to 16, 2014
Description: 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...
'No, Simon, don't you worry about me. I'm going back to the cottage to live in the woodshed.'
5* Tilly Trotter
TR The Dwelling Place
TR The Glass Virgin
3* The Mallen Streak
TR The Fifteen Streets
TR The Girl
TR The Rag Nymph
3* Katie Mulholland
3* The Cinder Path
2* The Mallen Girl
3* The Mallen Litter
4* Feathers in the Fire
3* Colour Blind
3* The Silent Lady
3* The Branded Man
3* Pure as the Lily
4* The Maltese Angel
WL The Fen Tiger
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