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!
In this novel Catherine portrays the life of this young girl Tilly Trotter and the many trials and tribulations that she has to face. Set near Newcastle Tilly lives with her grandparents and early on in life she loses them and very quickly has to survive on her own. She manages to do this despite being labelled a witch and eventually finds a good job looking after the children of the most important man in the village.
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