It was beautifully narrated that hooked me from the very beginning. It was different and uniquely told one story in different timeline by different perspective.
I will start with writing style, as I loved it most. But I don’t know from where should I startĪnd how much should I tell without giving away much. Time I don’t have a clue how to write review! It’s not like the book was bad inįact opposite, it was simply amazing.
And as blurb says, uncovering the family mystery, finding out what really happened to Harry’s father or was he really his father? It was about family, friendship, money, power, struggle, misfortunes and tragedy. And quite 'unputdownable'.Only Time Will Tell was interesting historical fiction and family saga that revolved around main character Harry Clifton, his life story from birth to childhood to love, a journey of son of dockworker from dock and streets to school, education, university and war. Sunday Express This is a cracker of a read. Richly imagined and populated with remarkable characters, The Clifton Chronicles will take you on a powerful journey, bringing to life one hundred years of family history in a story neither you, nor Harry, could ever have dreamt of.Ĭontinue the bestselling series with The Sins of the Father and Best Kept Secret.ĭaily Telegraph I enjoyed the book and marvelled at both its pace and the imaginative cliffhanger ending, whetting our appetite for volume two And in doing so, he will change his destiny forever. Over the course of twenty years, as the Second World War and the fight against Hitler draws nearer, Harry will learn the awful truth about his father’s death and of his own connections to a powerful shipping family, the Barringtons. Harry’s existence is defined by the death of his father and he seems destined to a life on the docks until a remarkable gift wins him a scholarship to an exclusive boys school and entry into a world he could never have envisaged. It is 1920, and against the backdrop of a world ravaged by conflict, Harry’s story begins with the words ‘I was told that my father was killed in the war’.
Ambitious and addictive, Only Time Will Tell is the first novel in Jeffrey Archer’s The Clifton Chronicles, beginning the epic tale of Harry Clifton, a working-class boy from the docks of Bristol.
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