Dream of Courage

Dream of Courage is very descriptive, the hooks very bold and is told in a way that places the reader in the time and place. So, turn the page and step back in time to follow the Rushworths on their journey of love, adventure and survival in this bittersweet family saga. The Rushworths are poor, hungry tenants of the Puritan Jasper Calamy, of Haworth manor, and scratch out a living tending a few sheep, spinning and weaving wool on put out from passing clothiers. Their lives are made more difficult by the end of the war which has put an end to the wool trade. Brothers Robert and John want to do more for their family because their parents are getting older. Robert Rushworth (Protagonist) and John Rushworth stumble across a way to make their fortune, in the Briggate in Leeds. John tries to convince Robert to return home but he disagrees until he is pursued by John Wilding (antagonist), a brogger and brute of a man, with no manners or decorum, typical of the ‘lower sort’ of the time. Smythe, the loc