Only Time Will Tell (The Clifton Chronicles) (The Clifton Chronicles, 1)

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Deep things to think about, deep character portrayal, lots of historical details are not what you will find served in this book. This is a fairly long book which I nevertheless read straight through on a 5 hour train ride and then two more hours in bed. But past encounters with an ex are never far away, and when Harry befriends Giles Barrington, his meddlesome, fraudulent father, Hugo, does his best to deny what happened between Harry’s mother and himself all those years ago. In 1945, Harry Clifton and Giles Barrington wait to find out who will inherit the Barrington family fortune.Maisie Clifton - Harry's mother who after sudden death of her husband Arthur, tries to make ends meet to support her family and Harry's education. My grandpa rarely offered an opinion on anything, but then he was deaf as a post so he might not have heard the question in the first place.

I listented to it and it made my 3 miles on the treadmill bearable and that is what I want in an audiobook. It just didn't impress me enough, even though I will say that this first book was definitely an entertaining read. With an insider feeding Faulkner's plans, Warwick and Hogan's duty transcends routine — they're on a mission to prevent the crime of the century. Harry falls in love with Emma, Giles's sister, and plans to marry her only to find out the secret kept for years and that it could be the only reason to intervene in their innocent and binding love for each other. The struggles of his mother to finance Harry’s upbringing (his father is dead) are particularly engrossing, and the intrigue of Harry’s father’s circumstances add an element of suspense to this entertaining novel, which ends with a bombshell of a cliffhanger!And excellent book, I'm looking forward to starting The Sins of the Father in the morning -- well, later in the morning, since I have stayed up until 2 am to finish reading this! A Boer War veteran who saved the life of his fellow officers and men, he is decorated with the Victoria Cross for his services, but is left permanently scarred by having killed 11 Boer soldiers to earn the medal, and cuts himself off from the world, eventually being persuaded to accept a job as a night watchman in the Barrington shipyards by his former lieutenant, Sir Walter Barrington, whose life he saved.