Illegitimate Self or sibling : Nope! Asshole Father? Romantic interest s : Farmer Simon, Lord Mark. She gets about other proposals from interested parties, though.
Bairnsketballs : Not one! Can you believe it?! Fistfights : Three…ish. So, up there is our heroine Tilly, smacking down the man we might as well just call Wil E. Also, because he has a face like a potato. Wil E. Rape Plan 1: Wait for Tilly to walk home alone alongside the woods and drop a fishing net on her from a nearby copse of trees!
Jun 26, Emma Francois rated it liked it. Well I definitely liked this story better than the first. I was more of a fast read as the world was already set so it was more character driven and I understood the world a bit better. Dec 06, Punit Sahani rated it really liked it. My heart goes out to Tilly for all that she has faced from being called a witch, to being a mistress, to being a legally wedded wife, to being a widow and carrying 2 bastard children along May 13, Daisy rated it it was amazing.
Entertaining and it made me think. Another random free book that surprised me. Feb 06, Gail Marchant rated it really liked it. A great story about Tilly Trotter Catherine Cookson great again. Jun 19, Sherry Partington rated it liked it. Nice gentle easy read. May 18, Sarah rated it liked it. Tilly Wed was the first one of her books I actually read because the TV series definitely left you hanging as to what happens next. It takes a somewhat soapera turn in this sequel with who she weds but I don't want to spoil the book.
The sequel is set in the early days of settling Texas. The 3rd and final one is on my list to get eventually. Jun 22, Susan rated it liked it.
As in most of Cookson's books she writes with strong female characters overcoming some miserable circumstance or misfortune. I also love the English accents given her characters. If you like books set in old England and well developed characters, you will enjoy books by Catherine Cookson!
Tilly Trotter Wed is part of a series. May 18, Lili rated it liked it Shelves: paperback , novel , read-a-long-time-ago. I read all of Catherine Cookson's books some years ago and enjoyed them immensley. I recently re-read all of them and find that on a second look I found them all so very predictable, and was rather disappointed.
However I'm sure that it is my tastes that have changed not the calibre of her story telling. Please do not read if you feel a little down. The Tilly Trotter series will make you feel worse. It is not an uplifting book but very captivating.
There is nothing but hardship sprinkled with a little love and some smiles. Tilly Trotter is a great character - the book is enjoyable but not for somebody who wants to be left with a feel good feeling. Cassettes in Oct 15, Angela rated it really liked it. Dec 15, Lynn Smith rated it liked it Shelves: family-saga , favourites , historical-fiction , romance , victorian , 19th-century , series , western.
Good sequel to Tilly trotter who again has to overcome challenges and acceptance. May 19, Ellen rated it it was amazing. I have read all three books. Catherine Cookson was one of my favourites have read most of her books mostly the sagas. Aug 31, Linda rated it really liked it. A good Cookson romance. May 17, Ami Nurlianti rated it really liked it.
Catherine Cookson really was a master of story teller The story about miss trotter always interesting especially when she wed Matthew Sopwith.
I found it stressing at the end Feb 18, Clare rated it liked it. One of Cookson's best romantics. F Coo. Excellent Second in the series, Tully certainly has had her share of grief, which continues as she moves to America to be with her husband.
May 16, Magda rated it did not like it. Feb 08, Shirley Revill rated it it was amazing Shelves: fiction , thought-provoking , books-i-have-read-a-few-times , romance , classic.
I really enjoyed reading this book by Catherine Cookson. Storytelling at it's best. Feb 06, Mookie rated it it was ok. Good, enjoyable, bit of a slog. Heaps of unnecessary pain. My god Tilly, leave town already. I don't like sagas, even if Cookson wrote them maybe especially when she writes them. The first book was nice, the second was weird, racist and cradle-robbing, and the third was just a hodgepodge of me thinking 'wtf Cookson'. Tilly's now got Luke crushing on her?!
I actually feel sorry for Farmer Bentwood. The scene where she basically tells her adopted daughter to leave HER son alone, and that she's no Good, enjoyable, bit of a slog.
The scene where she basically tells her adopted daughter to leave HER son alone, and that she's not actually her kid It's a common theme in Cookson's books where there is this divisive climax between parent and child, one in which they briefly if not permanently become enemies. It always makes for a hard read. I've re-read the first two novels in this trilogy many a times since I discovered Cookson in my teens.
I adored Tilly. But I never finished the story. I think my library at the time didn't have to third book or something. Now years later I finally read the concluding novel in Tilly's story. It got me very emotional at times. Racism, colorism, genocide, adoption, trauma As an adult I'm much more aware of different themes.
I've never been a big romance reader but I guess this was very nostalgic I've re-read the first two novels in this trilogy many a times since I discovered Cookson in my teens. I've never been a big romance reader but I guess this was very nostalgic to me.
I can appreciate and trust Cookson's style even though she will take all the time and make the reader wait for the satisfactory ending. Dramatic twist of events This was a difficult ending to me. Lots of trials and loss for Tilly. Honestly would have liked a bit more story of what happened after everyone was settled but overall a great ending for the trilogy.
Jul 18, Emma Francois rated it really liked it. This trilogy just got better and better for me. I absolutely enjoyed this story better than the other two. I think that the story ended where it needed to and most of my question got answered. Really enjoyed the last part however more than the first half of the story.
I was a little tired of Tilly by the 3rd book. She's soooo fascinating and beautiful and irresistible, blah blah blah. I thought she was also pretty self absorbed and clueless. Glad it ended how it did, I guess. Jun 20, Rowlie rated it really liked it. I enjoyed the third book in the Tilly Trotter trilogy. Written in true Cookson style. Jun 23, Sherry Partington rated it really liked it. A good solid conclusion to this trilogy. In days of horse and buggy, servant class when educated can mix with betters.
Matilda Sopwith, slim white-haired 35, returns as owner of coal-mine estate with nearly blind Willy, son by Mark, Mexican Josefina, tiny for 4, not "flyblow" of late husband Matthew Mark's son. The past still holds strong: loved by mine manager Steve McGrath, hated by farmer Simon Brentwood, eve In days of horse and buggy, servant class when educated can mix with betters. The past still holds strong: loved by mine manager Steve McGrath, hated by farmer Simon Brentwood, even more after his daughter Nell and Will fall in love.
Although part 2 starts a decade later, motherly cook Biddy dead, emotions are constant, repeat over generations. Like Tilly, Will loves two "impossible.. Fiction can be more believable than fact. Now, I understand, reading about the trilogy of novels, he ends up being her enemy and a really bad guy. Luckily, the 2 sequels were not made into movies, because, indeed, some pretty upsetting things happen there.
She ends up marrying one of the children she was governess to? Hello, Mary LeTourneau? Just no. No wonder they stopped at the first novel. I'm not even going to start on the detour to Texas.
The man she ends up with in this drama gets set up as the bad guy by yelling at his boisterous children and having an affair. We hardly can blame him when learn more of his evil wife. Tilly saves his life in the mine, and he becomes a good guy once he is permanently crippled and amputated. His wife leaves him, and he basically lets her take the children with her without fighting for them.
Given the rights of mothers and women back then, he had a good chance of winning custody. Then he mopes about it throughout the rest of the movie.
He is a great father when they visit him, but he never gets the kids back and his wife never gets her comeuppance. Their mother and their grandmother were just left to warp those poor kids, practically with the blessing of our hero and heroine. Then we have the ending. After her childhood crush disappoints her she immediately decides to become her employer's mistress.
She get in his bed, and the whole series ends. Just like that. Although Tilly Trotter end on a positive note, there is little hope for a long term happy future. By taking her as his mistress, and in the books, getting her pregnant, he will ruin her reputation and doom her to bad times ahead.
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