Only Time Will Tell
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Archer, Jeffrey, PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, ong>Fromong> the internationally bestselling author of "Kong>anong>e ong>anong>d Abel" ong>anong>d "A Prisoner of Birth" comes "Only Time Will Tell," the first in ong>anong> ambitious new series that tells the story of one family across generations, across oceong>anong>s, ong>fromong> heartbreak to triumph. The epic tale of Harry Clifton's ong>lifeong> begins in , 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 ong>lifeong> on the docks ong>fromong> his uncle, who expects Harry to join him at the shipyard once he's left school. But then ong>anong> unexpected gift wins him a scholarship to ong>anong> exclusive boys' school, ong>anong>d his ong>lifeong> will never be the same again. As he enters into adulthood, Harry finally learns how his father ong>realong>ly 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 ong>lifeong> 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 ong>anong>d takes us ong>fromong> 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 ong>anong>d go to war with Hitler's Germong>anong>y. ong>Fromong> the docks of working-class Englong>anong>d to the bustling streets of New York City, "Only Time Will Tell" takes readers on a journey through to future volumes, which will bring to ong>lifeong> one hundred years of recent history to reveal a family story that neither the reader nor Harry Clifton himself could ever have imagined.