Glovemaker's Daughter

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.

1666. Un copil se naste in ferma de la Windebank, in Yorkshire.