Tilly Trotter / Catherine Cookson; read by Anne Dover.
By: Cookson, Catherine.
Contributor(s): Dover, Anne [Reader].
Series: Cookson, Catherine. Tilly Trotter: 1.Publisher: Leicester : Ulverscroft, Magna, 2022Description: 14 sound discs (CD) (approximately 15 hr.) : digital ; 12 cm.Content type: spoken word Media type: audio Carrier type: audio discISBN: 9781399126816.Subject(s): Trotter, Tilly (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Working class women -- Fiction | Man-woman relationships -- Fiction | Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- FictionGenre/Form: Domestic fiction. | Audiobooks.Online resources: Click here to access online Cast: Dover, Anne.Summary: Coming up 16, Tilly Trotter is different from the other girls in her village. Tall for her age and coltish, she is not afraid of taking on 'mans work' to help out the grandparents who raised her in a cottage at the edge of the Sopwith Estate. Testing times lay ahead for Tilly, often hard to endure and even bringing her the undeserved taint of being suspected of witchcraft. She only loves one man, farmer Simon Bentwood, and is heartbroken to discover he is betrothed to another. A spurned suitor takes a terrible revenge, and a betrayal forces her into the cruel drudgery of the local mine. But Tilly refuses to let her spirit be broken - determined that all this will only serve to make her stronger - and she grows to become a young woman of innate courage and fortitude.| Item type | Home library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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Story Sound CD
Dover, Anne.
Coming up 16, Tilly Trotter is different from the other girls in her village. Tall for her age and coltish, she is not afraid of taking on 'mans work' to help out the grandparents who raised her in a cottage at the edge of the Sopwith Estate. Testing times lay ahead for Tilly, often hard to endure and even bringing her the undeserved taint of being suspected of witchcraft. She only loves one man, farmer Simon Bentwood, and is heartbroken to discover he is betrothed to another. A spurned suitor takes a terrible revenge, and a betrayal forces her into the cruel drudgery of the local mine. But Tilly refuses to let her spirit be broken - determined that all this will only serve to make her stronger - and she grows to become a young woman of innate courage and fortitude.
Adult.