Harry has grown up thinking Arthur Clifton is his father and that he died in the war. Maisie's sacrifices and the secret of Harry's parentage are the main focus of Only Time Will Tell.
Harry's mother, Maisie, works as a waitress and scrimps and saves to send her son to school and give him a better life. Holcombe, his elementary school teacher and Old Jack Tar, a Boer War hero and loner all help him, his life is changed forever. Harry has the gift of song, and when Miss Monday, the choir mistress Mr. The novel is set in Bristol, England, from 1919 to 1940 and centers on Harry Clifton, a young boy destined to follow in the footsteps of his father and uncle and work on the docks until a new world is opened up to him. The plot revolves around the protagonist Harry Clifton, spanning the time between the end of World War I and the beginning of the Second World War. It was launched by Jeffrey Archer himself in Bangalore, India in March 2011, as the beginning of a global book tour. The book was published worldwide in 2011. Only Time Will Tell is a first part of the seven in Clifton Chronicles by Jeffrey Archer. 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.Print (Hardcover, Paperback), Audio, eBook 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. But then an unexpected gift wins him a scholarship to an exclusive boys' school, and his life will never be the same again.Īs 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? 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.
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