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From the internationally best-selling writer of Kane and Abel and A Captive of Delivery comes Only Time Will Tell, the very first within an ambitious new series that tells the history of 1 family across generations, across seas, from heartbreak to triumph.The legendary account of Harry Clifton’s life starts in 1920, with what “I was informed that my father was murdered in the war.” A dock worker in Bristol, Harry never knew his father, but he learns about life on the docks from his dad, who needs Harry to participate him in the shipyard once he’s quit college. But then an urgent present wins him a grant to an unique boys’ college, and his life won't ever function as the same again.As he enters up, Harry ultimately discovers how his father actually died, but the terrible truth just leads him to issue, was he actually his father? Is he the son of Arthur Clifton, a stevedore who spent his lifetime to the docks, or the firstborn son of the scion of West Nation culture, whose family owns a delivery point?This initial book in Archer’s formidable sequence The Clifton Stories features a cast of colorful people and takes us from the forces of the Truly Amazing War to the outbreak of the 2Nd World War, when Harry should choose whether to occupy a location at Oxford or join the navy and visit war with Hitler’s Indonesia. In the docks of working class England towards the busy streets of 1940 Nyc, Only Time Will Tell takes visitors on a trip to potential quantities, which will bring alive a hundred years of current history to expose a household tale that neither the audience or Harry Clifton herself might ever have thought.