Tilly Trotter: Trailer, certificate and where to watch
Catherine Cookson classic starring Carli Norris
Year: 1999
Certificate: 12
Carli Norris (who you may recognise from her time as Belinda, the posh Slater sister in EastEnders) stars as Tilly, a hearty lass who, in Northumberland, 1838, lives a simple life on the family farm. It's time for her to be in service or married off, but she can read and write and has her own mind, and no interest in the brutish local lad who wants to court her.
Tilly Trotter is the archetypal Catherine Cookson heroine. A plucky young woman who weathers whatever life throws at her with hope and good humour, certain that a better life, and a good man, await her. (Two episodes)
