Synopsis
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.
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...
Details
17 August 2023
480 pages
9781035022779
Imprint: Pan
Reviews
Archer is on top formThe Daily Telegraph
I enjoyed the book and marvelled at both its pace and the imaginative cliffhanger ending, whetting our appetite for volume twoThe Sunday Express
This is a cracker of a read. And quite 'unputdownable'. The whole thing about Jeffrey is that he has always had the knack of producing page-turnersJerry Hayes, The Spectator
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 nextErica Wagner, Literary Editor, The Times