Only time will tell

Archer, Jeffrey 1940-

Only time will tell [sound recording - audiobook] / Jeffrey Archer - United Kingdom : Macmillan Digital Audio, 2011 - 5 Discs (7 hours) : sd. ; 4 3/4 in.

Audiobook

Produced by Ali Muirden Produced by Ali Muirden

Read by Roger Allam and Emilia Fox

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 his 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 who was his father? Is he the son of Arthur Clifton, a stevedore who spent his whole life on the docks, or the first-born son of a scion of West Country society, whose family owns a shipping line? This introductory novel in 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.


Audio CD

9780230754096 (sound disc) £14.99


Families--Fiction
Fathers and sons--Fiction
Social classes--England--Fiction
Modern & contemporary fiction
Historical fiction
Generational sagas


Great Britain--Social life and customs--1918-1945--Fiction


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