Sign In Join Now
User Accessibility
  • Increase Font

  • Invert Colours

Search for a Book Browse Books Menu
Ellindale Saga Book 2: One Kind Man Cover Play Sample

Sample may contain unsuitable content.

Open Audiobook

Audiobook streaming provided by:

OverDrive Logo

Share this book:

Ellindale Saga Book 2: One Kind Man

AuthorAnna Jacobs

NarratorAnne Dover

SeriesEllindale Saga, Book 2

Duration11h 2m

CategoriesAdult Fiction, Historical Novels, Romance, Family Sagas

PublisherHodder & Stoughton

VersionUnabridged

  Save to Wish List
  Add to Favourites List

Lancashire, 1931. When Finn Carlisle loses his wife and unborn child, he spends a few years travelling to keep the sad memories at bay. Just as he's ready to settle down again, his great-uncle dies and leaves everything to him. This includes Heythorpe House in Ellindale, just down the road from Leah Willcox and her little fizzy drink factory. Finn finds a village of people in dire need of jobs, a house that hasn't been cleaned or lived in for 30 years and Reggie, an 11-year-old who's run away from the nearby orphanage and its brutal Director Buddle. When Finn sees the marks left by regular beatings, he decides Reggie will never go back there. He can't turn away two hungry young women from the village seeking jobs as maids, either, and they, too, need help with their lives. But Buddle has other plans for the child and will stop at nothing to get Reggie back in his cruel grasp. His new neighbours help him save Reggie, but other surprises throw his new plans into turmoil.

0 (0 Reviews)
0
0
0
0
0

Related Titles

Birch End Book 3: A Woman's Promise Cover

Birch End Book 3: A Woman's Promise

Author: Anna Jacobs

Birch End Book 3: A Woman's Promise

Author Anna Jacobs

Narrator Julia Franklin

SeriesBirch End, Book 3

Duration 11h 28m

As the only female cabinet maker in the valley in 1935, Frankie Redfern is unusual. She faces prejudice even from her own mother. But she's content working for her father and is unwilling to give up her independence or the work she loves for marriage. When her husband falls gravely ill, Frankie's mother takes over, causing serious trouble for her d...

View Book
Birch End Book 1: A Daughter's Journey Cover

Birch End Book 1: A Daughter's Journey

Author: Anna Jacobs

Birch End Book 1: A Daughter's Journey

Author Anna Jacobs

Narrator Julia Franklin

SeriesBirch End, Book 1

Duration 10h 25m

Jo Melling has arrived in Birch End from Australia, still grieving her father's recent death. She's not intending to stay long, but after tracking down her distant family, Jo becomes more involved in village life than she could ever have imagined - and suddenly in danger, too. Jo also finds herself drawn to Nick, a handsome newcomer to the village....

View Book
Jubilee Series Book 3: Diamond Promises Cover

Jubilee Series Book 3: Diamond Promises

Author: Anna Jacobs

Jubilee Series Book 3: Diamond Promises

Author Anna Jacobs

Narrator Catherine Harvey

SeriesJubilee Series, Book 3

Duration 10h 3m

The third book in the gripping and heartwarming new Jubilee Lake series, from multi-million-copy bestselling author Anna Jacobs Lancashire, 1895. Lancashire, 1895. Abigail Dawson has lived in fear of her father for thirty years. But when, after uprooting them to a grand new home in Ollerthwaite, he's found murdered in the street, her life is turned...

View Book
Jubilee Series Book 2: Golden Dreams Cover

Jubilee Series Book 2: Golden Dreams

Author: Anna Jacobs

Jubilee Series Book 2: Golden Dreams

Author Anna Jacobs

Narrator Catherine Harvey

SeriesJubilee Series, Book 2

Duration 10h 29m

The second book in the gripping and heartwarming Jubilee Lake series, from multi-million-copy bestselling author Anna Jacobs. Lancashire, 1895. Lillian Hesketh has taken a new name, and a brave step towards a happier life. Suddenly widowed after an unhappy marriage, and pursued by her unscrupulous in-laws, Lillian finds a fresh start in the beautif...

View Book
Ellindale Saga Book 1: One Quiet Woman Cover

Ellindale Saga Book 1: One Quiet Woman

Author: Anna Jacobs

Ellindale Saga Book 1: One Quiet Woman

Author Anna Jacobs

Narrator Anne Dover

SeriesEllindale Saga, Book 1

Duration 11h 2m

Leah Turner's father has been killed in an accident at the laundry, and since her mother died years ago it falls to her to become sole provider for her little sister. But women's wages are half those of men and pawning the few belongings she has left will only keep their vicious rent collector at bay for a few weeks, so even if she finds a job, the...

View Book
Jubilee Series Book 1: Silver Wishes Cover

Jubilee Series Book 1: Silver Wishes

Author: Anna Jacobs

Jubilee Series Book 1: Silver Wishes

Author Anna Jacobs

Narrator Catherine Harvey

SeriesJubilee Series, Book 1

Duration 9h 52m

The first novel in the heartwarming and gripping Jubilee Lake series, from million-copy bestseller Anna Jacobs. Lancashire, 1895. When her controlling stepfather suddenly dies, it seems that Elinor Pendleton finally has a chance of freedom. But her hopes are soon dashed when she learns that the thuggish Jason Stafford has inherited every penny, and...

View Book
Ellindale Saga Book 3: One Special Village Cover

Ellindale Saga Book 3: One Special Village

Author: Anna Jacobs

Ellindale Saga Book 3: One Special Village

Author Anna Jacobs

Narrator Anne Dover

SeriesEllindale Saga, Book 3

Duration 10h 35m

Widower Harry Makepeace lives in Manchester with his sickly daughter, Cathie, scrimping and saving to get by. But after she suffers a violent asthma attack, the doctors say she must move to the clean, fresh air of the countryside to have any hope of survival. When Harry chances upon a patch of land for sale in Ellindale and an advert for a disused...

View Book
Birch End Book 2: A Widow's Courage Cover

Birch End Book 2: A Widow's Courage

Author: Anna Jacobs

Birch End Book 2: A Widow's Courage

Author Anna Jacobs

Narrator Julia Franklin

SeriesBirch End, Book 2

Duration 11h

Lancashire 1934. Three years after her husband's sudden death, Stella comes into some money unexpectedly and decides to make a new start in the country. She settles on Ellin Valley, where she quickly begins to make friends. She falls in love with a cottage in Birch End, but an unscrupulous man wants it too. Will she be able to buy her dream home? L...

View Book
Ellindale Saga Book 4: One Perfect Family Cover

Ellindale Saga Book 4: One Perfect Family

Author: Anna Jacobs

Ellindale Saga Book 4: One Perfect Family

Author Anna Jacobs

Narrator Anne Dover

SeriesEllindale Saga, Book 4

Duration 10h 46m

Lancashire, 1934. When Tam Crawford is unexpectedly bequeathed some money, he can finally realise his dream of settling down in the beautiful village of Ellindale. Tam knows he can be impulsive - his nickname isn't Crazy Tam for nothing! - but this time he is determined not to be ruled by his big heart and hot head. Yet somehow, within just one day...

View Book
High Street Cover

High Street

Author: Anna Jacobs

High Street

Author Anna Jacobs

Narrator Anne Dover

SeriesGibson Family Saga, Book 2

Duration 15h 12m

The second in the heartwarming Lancashire saga series that began with Salem Street, by beloved author Anna Jacobs. In 1845 Annie Gibson can finally leave Salem Street. Her dreams of being able to open an elegant dressmaking salon in the High Street of Bilsden, a Lancashire mill town, have come true. And she is going to take her father and his secon...

View Book