The National Health Service did the best they could but he was fucked and gone he was dead and didn't know it, wouldn't lie down. His employers, did they cover the hospital bills? They did fuck-all. The last ten years he spent coughing up blood and gook till his eyes bulged. My old man, Anthony Crew, worked in an asbestos factory all his life. The silicon chip inside my head just switched to overload. I listen to The Rats with ‘I Don't Like Mondays' and I've got my soundtrack down. I think it was Bob Geldof who said work was the biggest con of all. Thirty years I could have been mowing down the fucks and what was I doing? Or as them Yanks have it, a late bloomer. I'm forty-four years old, and I guess I'm what you'd call a late starter. I killed my first last Tuesday, I can't believe it was so easy. You have to hand it to the goddamn Yanks, they have great verbals, man. Set at the beginning of the Victorian era, this is a compelling story that follows the shaping of a young woman's life and destiny.SHIT FROM SHINOLA. But Tilly refuses to let her spirit be broken, determined that all this will only serve to make her stronger, and she grows to become a young woman of innate courage and fortitude. A spurned suitor takes a terrible revenge, and a betrayal forces her into the cruel drudgery of the local mine and puts her life in danger. She is heartbroken to discover he is betrothed to another. Tilly, with her unusual beauty, envied by the local women and lusted after by the men, only loves one man, farmer Simon Bentwood. Testing times lay ahead for Tilly, often hard to endure and even bringing her the undeserved taint of being suspected of witchcraft. Tall for her age and coltish, she is not afraid of taking on "man's work" to help out the grandparents who raised her in a cottage at the edge of the Sop with Estate, only a few miles from the bustling Tyneside towns of County Durham. But this was 1913, and anything beyond the most formal relationship between servant and mistress had to face the barriers and injustices of a rigid social hierarchy that was soon to perish in the flames of war.Ĭoming up sixteen, Tilly Trotter is different from the other girls in her village. The time came when a sudden and dramatic turn in Robert's affairs brought him a much closer involvement with the Thormans of Foreshaw, and especially with the elder daughter Agnes who shouldered so many of the burdens of this troubled household and who alone of all her family loved and protected the frail unworldly Millie. At a friendly wayside inn he heard talk about Foreshaw Park, the sadly run-down estate of the once wealthy Thorman family, and walking home in the moonlight he had his first strange encounter with Millie, the ethereal girl-child of that house whose odd ways and nocturnal wanderings had led to her being known locally as 'Thorman's Moth'. Life with domineering Uncle John and his family did not always prove easy, however, and on Sunday Robert was glad to set off alone exploring the Durham countryside. Robert Bradley, a young man of independent mind and spirit, gave up his job in the Jarrow shipyards to work at his uncle's old-established carpenter's shop in a small village.
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