Tilly Trotter Wed

Tilly Trotter has devotedly served Mark Sopwith at Highfield Manor for twelve years. She is his wife in all but name. Theirs is a scandalous yet happy arrangement. But when Mark dies Tilly is left pregnant with his illegitimate child. Cast out of the manor house by Mark's spiteful grown-up daughter Tilly is forced to face the prejudices of the local village. No stranger to hardship she makes do as best she can but when a villager's vicious attack leaves her baby son Willy half blinded she knows that it is time to leave her native Tyneside. A new love seems to offer an escape and so she follows her heart to America sure that this will be the beginning of a better life. But new perils await Tilly across the ocean. . .