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    Best Kept Secret
    Best Kept Secret
    Best Kept Secret
    Audiobook11 hours

    Best Kept Secret

    Written by Jeffrey Archer

    Narrated by Alex Jennings

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    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Archer, the Clifton Chronicles continues with Best Kept Secret.

    1945, London. The vote in the House of Lords as to who should inherit the Barrington family fortune has ended in a tie. The Lord Chancellor's deciding vote will cast a long shadow on the lives of Harry Clifton and Giles Barrington. Harry returns to America to promote his latest novel, while his beloved Emma goes in search of the little girl who was found abandoned in her father's office on the night he was killed. When the general election is called, Giles Barrington has to defend his seat in the House of Commons and is horrified to discover who the Conservatives select to stand against him. But it is Sebastian Clifton, Harry and Emma's son, who ultimately influences his uncle's fate.

    In 1957, Sebastian wins a scholarship to Cambridge, and a new generation of the Clifton family marches onto the page. But after Sebastian is expelled from school, he unwittingly becomes caught up in an international art fraud involving a Rodin statue that is worth far more than the sum it raises at auction. Does he become a millionaire? Does he go to Cambridge? Is his life in danger? Best Kept Secret, the third volume in Jeffrey Archer's bestselling series, will answer all these questions but, once again, pose so many more.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateApr 30, 2013
    ISBN9781427229212
    Author

    Jeffrey Archer

    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 97 countries and in more than 37 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 two grandsons.

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    • 5/5
      Another brilliant un-putdownable instalment of The Clifton Chronicles
    • 2/5
      Jeffrey Archer has written amazing stories with engaging three dimensional characters, exciting plots filled with unexpected twists and moments that fill any reader with emotion. This third volume of the Clifton Chronicles simply does not live up to Archer's early work. The main characters are not fleshed out well, the peripheral characters are generic and the plot is choppy. Any reader disappointed by this one, should pick up Archer's As the Crow Flies to read a similar story that nails everything this one misses.