The 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.