The ability to tell a story is a great and unusual gift . . . [it] is not something that can be taught or acquired. You have it or you don't . . . Jeffrey Archer is, first and foremost, a storyteller . . . You don't sell 250 million copies of your books (250 million!) if you can't keep an audience hooked and that's what Archer does, book after book. Archer's audience will stick with him to the last. They want to know what happens next

Vorwort
The number one bestselling first book in The Clifton Chronicles, a multi-generational family saga.

Autorentext

Jeffrey Archer, whose novels and short stories include the Clifton Chronicles, Kane and Abel and Cat O’ Nine Tales, is one of the world’s favourite storytellers and has topped the bestseller lists around the world in a career spanning four decades. His work has been sold in more than 100 countries and in fifty-one languages. He is the only author ever to have been a number one bestseller in fiction, short stories and non-fiction (The Prison Diaries).

Jeffrey is also an art collector and amateur auctioneer, and has raised more than £50m for different charities over the years. A member of the House of Lords for over a quarter of a century, the author is married to Dame Mary Archer, and they have two sons, two granddaughters and three grandsons.

Emilia Fox is well known for her many stage and screen roles. Her screen credits include Roman Polanski's The Pianist, Pride and Prejudice, Rebecca, Silent Witness and *Fallen Angel.*Roger Allam is a British actor who has worked extensively for the RSC, the National Theatre and in the West End. He created the role of Javert in Les Miserables and was most recently in Boeing Boeing at the Comedy Theatre. He has won two Olivier awards for his work on stage. On film he played the Queen's private secretary Robin Janvrin in The Queen and has a major role in Speedracer.

Klappentext
Ambitious and addictive, Only Time Will Tell, the first novel in international bestseller Jeffrey Archer's the Clifton Chronicles, begins the epic tale of Harry Clifton, a working-class boy from the docks of Bristol.

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'. 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.

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. And in doing so, he will change his destiny forever . . .

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.

Praise for Jeffrey Archer

'Archer is on top form' Daily Telegraph

'This is a cracker of a read' Jerry Hayes, Spectator

Zusammenfassung
The number one bestselling first book in The Clifton Chronicles, a multi-generational family saga.