The glovemaker's daughter
Fleming, Leah2018
Large Print
Total copies: 1
1666. A child is born in the farmhouse at Windebank, in Yorkshire. Named Rejoice (Joy) by her dying father, Joy grows up witness to the persecution of the farming community for following a banned faith. A passionate, rebellious and courageous woman, Joy joins a group of Yorkshire pioneers travelling to the New World to form a colony close to Philadelphia. 2014. A leather-bound book is found buried in the walls of the Meeting House, Pennsylvania. Its details trace the owner back to a Yorkshire farm in the Dales. And so a correspondence begins between Rachel Moorside and the man who found the journal, Sam Storer, as she uncovers her family history.
Main title:
The glovemaker's daughter / Leah Fleming.
Author:
Fleming, Leah, author
Imprint:
Long Preston : Magna, 2018.
Collation:
478 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Standard print edition originally published: London: Simon & Schuster, 2017.
ISBN:
9780750546362 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.92
LC class:
PR6106
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
326445