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The Glovemaker's Daughter Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Leah Fleming (Author), Anne Dover (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio UK (Publisher)

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From the acclaimed author of The Last Pearl and Dancing at the Victory Cafe, this is a beautiful novel about dark family 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 travelling to the New World to form a 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 so a correspondence begins between Rachel Moorside and the man who found the journal, Sam Storer, as Rachel uncovers the tumultuous secrets of her family’s history.

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Listening Length	13 hours and 33 minutes
Author	Leah Fleming
Narrator	Anne Dover
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com.au Release Date	28 June 2018
Publisher	Simon & Schuster Audio UK
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B07DGHP34V
Best Sellers Rank	136,077 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 8,285 in Historical Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) 43,727 in Historical Fiction (Books)

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Mrs. Edwina Brown

A saga of family and religion

Reviewed in Australia on 11 December 2020

A beautiful story of generations and how important or otherwise it is to hold onto possessions which are passed down through families.

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M. Hollands

Struggle and perseverance

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 January 2018

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Could have been a good historical yarn but it gets bogged down by the thees and thous of the cheerless Quaker characters and religion. The North American Indians that the settlers meet give the novel a much needed boost if you've lasted that far into the book. I finished it but it was a struggle due mainly to the protagonist's incessant and repetitive struggle with her religion and conscience.

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R. Lawler

Excellent Book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 May 2018

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I’m a big fan of the writings of Leah Fleming but this is my favourite to date. I seldom give a five star rating but this is well deserved). Fascinating story of a girl in the Quaker movement, her struggles with her own spiritual walk and her desire to “get it right” despite the harsh attitudes of the “Friends” she shared her life with.

Quite sorry to have finished this one - kept me gripped from the beginning. Thank you Leah Fleming for a brilliant read - totally recommend.

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Miss T

Nice read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 April 2019

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It's a nice story.. not sure what but something leaves me feeling that "nice" is it.. just that, it's close to great but just falls short.. a little bit bland, especially the ending where it falls too neatly into a "happily ever after" for Joy.. somehow the character seemed to change too much from "willful disobedience" and "freely spoken trouble maker" (as she seems to have been considered by her fellow seekers: begs the question as to why they would allow her to preach at all) to totally change to contented wife and homemaker. She was heavily portrayed as determined to live by the Shaker faith and all it holds dear and then too suddenly she has walked away and has given up everything she supposedly holds dear including finery, Protestantism, music and her entire belief system.. too easily to ring true, I feel that she'd have fought a little more to hold onto it from the way she'd been portrayed throughout the novel..

Btw a direct descendant is someone who follows your direct line, Joy had no direct descendant.. she had no child and no siblings so that really ought to have been picked up during editing.. I seem to have not found out how they came to make contact with this so called direct descendant in Yorkshire, or worked out how they are connected to the person who found the book.. bit sloppy..

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Heavy going.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 September 2018

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I usually love Leah Flemings books, even Winters Children which had long passages in Old English, but this book with its thee’s thou’s and other “Quakerisms” was just too heavy going. I am sure if I could have stuck with it things would have improved but I was listening to it with Whispersync and after 3hours I noticed I had more than 10hours left to its conclusion.
I really don’t want to lose 10hours of my life that I will never get back so I have done something I do very rarely......I binned it off!

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D.L.Ball

The Glovemakers Daughter.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 April 2019

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I loved this book it had a great story line following the life of a young Quaker girl in the 1600s. From her life in England under terrible religeous persecution to her life in America. Her wilful nature often landing her in hot water with the religeous elders. She was captured by a tribe of native Americans and subsequently escaped and returned to her Quaker brethren hoping for a happy reunion which was not forthcoming. But she is lucky in love in the final chapters of her life. Although not a true story it paints a grafic picture of what life must have been like in that period of history.

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