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Original Title: Tilly Alone 'How many times can we love?' The question haunted beautiful Tilly Trotter, bereft after the murder of her beloved husband Matthew by warring Comanches. Summoning her courage, she fled America for the familiar English countryside. Tilly was Lady of the Manor now, richer than she had ever dreamed possible. Yet it was love for her children, delicate Willy and Mexican-Indian Josefina, that helped her endure the slander of vicious townspeople. Indomitable, she never faltered in the face of adversity. And still she honored her promise of faith to a dying husband. But the flame of a childhood love rekindled, forcing Tilly to answer her greatest question. With gentle Steve McGrath, she could leave tragedy behind her. She could love again, as she had never loved before.
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Catherine Cookson was born in Tyne Dock, the illegitimate daughter of a poverty-stricken woman, Kate, who Catherine believed was her older sister. Catherine 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 contemporary woman novelist. She received an OBE in 1985, was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1993, and was appointed an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford, in 1997. For many years she lived near Newcastle upon Tyne.
