Each segment begins with a short chapter told in the first person by whomever we are going to be hearing from, then goes into third person focusing on the new “narrator”. And there are a lot of secrets floating around in this boy’s life.Īrcher chooses to tell his story through several different characters. We’re watching Harry grow up but we’re also learning all sorts of secrets about his family as we go. I didn’t mind it in Only Time Will Tell, however, because Archer does have a plot line going here. He’s most certainly not above having someone behave out of character in order to move the plot forward – which is normally something I would find irritating in a book based mostly on the main characters and their lives rather than a more structured plot. His characters are generally good or bad, though with enough complexity that they don’t feel too trite. Jeffrey Archer is a terrific storyteller. What commences is a family saga spanning 20 years between the first and second World Wars. Harry is always the focus – this is the story of his life, wrapped up in the lives of his friend Giles, his mother, Giles’ parents and family and a mysterious old man who lives in a train car down by Harry’s early love – the docks. It is there that Harry meets the boys who will become his best friends and we follow the lives of the boys as they grow up within the English school system.
Bedes that Harry actually decides to go to class. His mother enrolls him in school, hoping for a brighter future for her son, but it isn’t until the chance of a choral scholarship to the prestigious St. His uncle works on the docks, as did his late father, and Harry is sure he will follow in kind. Harry is a young English boy living in a solidly blue collar home with his mother, uncle and grandparents. Only Time Will Tell is the story of Harry Clifton. Series books are harsh mistresses when you aren’t prepared.Īnyway. Why do I tell you this before anything else? So that you, unlike I, will not get to the end of the book – having felt the impending doom for at least 50 pages – and wail “NOOOOOOOOO!” as you realize that the answer to the major mystery will not be revealed. The second book, Sins of the Father, has already been published, but there are rumors of the series eventually including up to five installments. Reader Beware! Jeffrey Archer’s Only Time Will Tell is not a stand-alone book it’s the first in a series.
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