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

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I listented to it and it made my 3 miles on the treadmill bearable and that is what I want in an audiobook. I have seen books where each section tells the next part of the story, and I have seen books where each section tells the same story from multiple perspectives. Eton has been known to bend the rules when it comes to members of the aristocracy and will occasionally allow a stupid boy to darken its doors, which is why I selected Percy for my little subterfuge in the first place. In the gripping third instalment of the William Warwick series, Detective Inspector Warwick must go undercover and expose corruption at the heart of the Metropolitan Police Force.

Hugo perhaps, because he was such a cowardly toad but Maisie had a good handle on moral responsibility and lived for her son, so I’m not sure she would have simply stood by. I liked how the other characters filled into the story all the bits that Harry was blissfully unaware of. Jeffrey is published in 114 countries and more than 47 languages, with more than 750,000 5* reviews with international sales passing 275 million copies. It's the first of seven books, the opening of what promises to be a sweeping story following two families over 100 years.The fifth book In his new William Warwick novels - the first of which, Nothing Ventured, was published in 2019 - is NEXT IN LINE which will be out in September 2022. So the yardstick being as high as it is for Jeffrey, the series is still decent and worth a one-time read. Not that there's anything absolutely wrong with the writing, but at times it becomes moralizing, and all the way through it is written in a language that is easily and quickly read. The author attempts to end every chapter with some sort of mysterious tease, clearly intended to make the reader curious but it gets annoying after a bit because it always ends in predictable anti-climax.

The reader also learns of Clifton's mother, Maisie, who seeks to put a troubled past out of her mind and make a name for herself, all while concerned that Harry might discover the truth about his father. All in all, the beginning of this novel intrigued me, but having now finished it I don't think I'm going to continue reading this long family saga. We must believe this because of the great lengths other characters go to ensure that the Main Character has the means to build on his future, and the same supporting characters are always engaged in conversation talking about how brilliant Main Character is and conspiring to make sure a tiny kid does not know that everyone is working in collusion to get him to accept opportunities unavailable to other, lesser children of his socioeconomic class.Especially the beginning of this historical family saga had me intrigued because it tells enchantingly about these three boys and their struggles on a boarding school. 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 nearly got myself expelled from my prep school for stealing – heaven knows how he managed to fix that – and after that I let him down by failing to get into Eton.