Rating: ✪✪✪✪✪ out of 5
Stars
Release Date: March 2014
Author’s Website: http://www.jeffreyarcher.co.uk/site/
Purchase in Australia: QBD Bookstore &
other good book stores
Purchase Book U.S.: Amazon
Publisher’s Website: Pan
MacMillan
Only Time Will Tell: THE CLIFTON CHRONICLES
1 Released 2011
The Sins of the Father: THE CLIFTON
CHRONICLES 2 Released 2012
The Best Kept Secret: THE CLIFTON CHRONICLES
3 Released 2013
What You Wish For: THE CLIFTON CHRONICLES 4 Released March 2014
My thoughts:
Since Not A
Penny More, Not a Penny Less, I’ve idolized Jeffrey Archer as an author. Jeffrey Archer is the master of characterization and
suspense. Somehow he commands that you care about the results of a high
school exam, the vote for a board Chairman, or whether a cruise-ship will meet
its construction deadline. None of these challenges are exciting
mysteries. Yet we must know the answer.
At age 74, after 35 years as a best-selling author, and over
270 million copies of books sold, Lord Archer has brought us a great series: The Clifton Chronicles, which follows
the life and story of Harry Clifton and his heirs. We meet Harry in 1919
Bristol and follow him and his friends through to the 1940’s and the Second
World War, and in Be Careful What You
Wish For, the fourth volume we are taken through 1957 to ’64.
This book is
essentially Harry Clifton’s wife, Emma Barrington-Clifton’s, story. Readers enjoy
front row seats at the boardroom drama of Barrington’s, Emma’s family’s ship-construction
company. The board-members are gambling the future of the company on the
building of a luxury liner. High stakes criminal Martinez, who bears a murderous
grudge against the Clifton family, is out to scuttle Barringtons, and there is
much fun with wheeling and dealing in shares and board appointees. Like the
previous books, this leaves us hanging on a cliff. It has all the twists,
turns, dirty tricks, tragedies and vendettas that have made this series so
fabulous.
Jeffrey Archer is possibly the greatest storyteller of our
time. The Clifton Chronicles, his most ambitious story, requiring of
Archer a commitment of more than five years, with rumors that the five-part
series may become seven. The series only curse is that there’s a year's
wait after each book.
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Book Blurb:
The Clifton
Chronicles Series
Only
Time Will Tell Released 2011
The epic tale of Harry Clifton's life begins in
1919, in the backstreets of Bristol. His father was a war hero, but it will be
twenty-one tumultuous years before Harry discovers the truth about how his
father really died and if, in fact, he even was his father.
Only Time Will Tell takes a cast of
memorable characters from the ravages of the Great War to the outbreak of the
Second World War, when Harry must decide whether to take his place at Oxford,
or join the fight against Hitler's Germany.
In Jeffrey Archer's masterful hands, you will be
taken on a journey that you won't want to end, even after you turn the last
page of this unforgettable yarn, because you will be faced with a dilemma that
neither you, nor Harry Clifton could ever have anticipated.
Only Time Will Tell: THE CLIFTON CHRONICLES
1 Released 2011
The Sins of the Father: THE CLIFTON
CHRONICLES 2 Released 2012
The Best Kept Secret: THE CLIFTON CHRONICLES
3 Released 2013
What You Wish For: THE CLIFTON CHRONICLES 4 Released March 2014
About the author:
Jeffrey Archer, whose novels and short stories include Kane
and Abel, A Prisoner of Birth and Cat O'
Nine Tales, has topped the bestseller lists around the world, with
sales of over 270 million copies. He is the only author ever to have been a
number one bestseller in fiction (seventeen times), short stories (four times)
and non-fiction (The Prison Diaries). The author is married with two
sons and lives in London and Cambridge. www.jeffreyarcher.com
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