Glovemaker's Daughter (LEAH FLEMING)(Paperback)

From the acclaimed author of The Last Pearl and The Postcard, a beautiful and epic novel spanning three generations of one family's dark secrets, betrayal, love, and redemption. 1666. A child is born in the farmhouse at Windebank, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Named Rejoice (Joy) by her dying father, Joy grows up witness to the persecution of the farming community for following a banned faith. Defying the authority of the local priest, she joins a group of Yorkshire pioneers traveling to the New World to form a Quaker colony close to Philadelphia--a passionate, rebellious, and courageous woman fighting against the constraints of the time. Will she find peace and love? 2014. A leather-bound book is found buried in the walls of the Meeting House in Good Hope, Pennsylvania. Its details trace the owner back to a Yorkshire farm in the Dales. And
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