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Only Time Will Tell (audiobook) by Jeffrey Archer
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Jeffrey Archer
Only Time Will Tell by Jeffrey Archer
Title: Only Time Will Tell
Author: Jeffrey Archer
Published: August 2011 St. Martin’s Press
Genre: Fiction
About: (from the publisher) The epic tale of Harry Clifton’s life begins in 1920 with the words “I was told that my father was killed in the war.” A dock worker in Bristol, Harry never knew his father, but he learns about life on the docks from his uncle, who expects Harry to join him in the shipyard once he’s left school. But then an unexpected gift wins him a scholarship to an exclusive boys’ school, and his life will never be the same again.
As he enters into adulthood, Harry finally learns how his father really died, but the awful truth only leads him to question, was he even his father?
My take: Only Time Will Tell is the first book by Jeffrey Archer that I’ve read. He used familiar themes (no spoilers here!) to tell an entertaining tale.
From the opening pages the reader is taken on a journey that moves from the Bristol shipyards to posh private schools to the high seas. The story is told from various perspectives which serves to not only tell how each main character viewed the same major events in the novel but also leaves no question as to what transpired.
Archer filled the book with heroes and villains (interesting characters all). I especially liked the character Old Jack Tarr. He was an advisor of sorts to Harry as he grew up and Harry helped Jack return to the world he’d left years earlier. I enjoyed Only Time Will Tell and, after the cliffhanger ending, look forward to the next book in The Clifton Chronicles.
Source: St. Martin’s Press
Spotlight and Giveaway: ONLY TIME WILL TELL by Jeffrey Archer
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From the internationally bestselling author of Kane and Abel and A Prisoner of Birth comes Only Time Will Tell, the first in an ambitious new series that tells the story of one family across generations, across oceans, from heartbreak to triumph. The epic tale of Harry Clifton’s life begins in 1920, with the words “I was told that my father was killed in the war.” A dock worker in Bristol, Harry never knew his father, but he learns about life on the docks from his uncle, who expects Harry to join him at the shipyard once he’s left school. But then an unexpected gift wins him a scholarship to an exclusive boys’ school, and his life will never be the same again. As he enters into adulthood, Harry finally learns how his father really died, but the awful truth only leads him to question, was he even his father? Is he the son of Arthur Clifton, a stevedore who spent his whole life on the docks, or the firstborn son of a scion of West Country society, whose family owns a shipping line? This introductory novel in Archer’s ambitious series The Clifton Chronicles includes a cast of colorful characters and takes us from the ravages of the Great War to the outbreak of the Second World War, when Harry must decide whether to take up a place at Oxford or join the navy and go to war with Hitler’s Germany. From the docks of working-class England to the bustling streets of 1940 New York City, Only Time Will Tell takes readers on a journey through to future volumes, which will bring to life one hundred years of recent history to reveal a family story that neither the reader nor Harry Clifton himself could ever have imagined.
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