Tilly Trotter Wed by Catherine Cookson
For twelve years, Tilly Trotter had devotedly served Mark Sopwith as nurse and mistress; a wife in all but name. Now he was dead, and her whole future lay in the balance. At least one of his grown-up children was extremely hostile, determined to banish her from Highfield Manor as soon as possible and, to make the situation even more difficult, Mark had left Tilly four months pregnant. But she was no stranger to trouble and hardship, and would meet these new problems with the same courage and resolution that she had displayed in facing up to earlier crises. Fate still had a lot in store for Matilda Trotter - good and ill alike. She would make a real marriage, and this would take her from her native Tyneside to experience all the wonders and perils of a strange and distant land. Tilly Trotter Wed is a story of wide scope and imagination, and the first of Catherine Cookson's books in which a large part of the action takes place away from England - in the vividly evoked pioneer Texas of the 1850s.
Catherine Cookson was born in Tyne Dock, the illegitimate daughter of a poverty-stricken woman, Kate, whom she believed to be her older sister. She began work in service but eventually moved south to Hastings, where she met and married Tom Cookson, a local grammar-school master. Although she was originally acclaimed as a regional writer - her novel The Round Tower won the Winifred Holtby Award for the best regional novel of 1968 - her readership quickly spread throughout the world, and her many best-selling novels established her as one of the most popular of contemporary women novelists. After receiving an OBE in 1985, Catherine Cookson was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1993. She was appointed an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford, in 1997. For many years she lived near Newcastle upon Tyne. She died shortly before her ninety-second birthday, in June 1998.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780434142712 |
| ISBN 10 | 0434142719 |
| Title | Tilly Trotter Wed |
| Author | Catherine Cookson |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cornerstone |
| Year published | 1981-01-12 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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