Best Kept Secret

Written by Jeffrey Archer

Narrated by Alex Jennings

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Macmillan Audio
• Release date: Apr 30, 2013
• ISBN: 9781427229212

Jeffrey Archer

Jeffrey Archer, whose novels include the Clifton Chronicles, the William Warwick novels and Kane and Abel, has topped bestseller lists around the world, with sales of over 300 million copies. He is the only author ever to have been a #1 bestseller in fiction, short stories and non-fiction (The Prison Diaries). 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.

Reviews for Best Kept Secret

[pamjw · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Another brilliant un-putdownable instalment of The Clifton Chronicles

[ajwseven · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

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.