Best Kept Secret by Jeffery Archer

Best Kept Secret: 3 (The Clifton Chronicles series) by Jeffery Archer

Synopsis:-

1945. 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 march onto the page. 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 book in Jeffrey Archer's gripping family saga The Clifton Chronicles, will answer all these questions, but once again, pose so many more.

About the book:-

Best Kept Secret is 380 pages long and is divided into 46 chapters. You will be hooked to the book right from the prologue if you have read the earlier two books of the series. Also, what I felt was that this book has been written so smartly that even if you haven’t read the first two part of the series, you can still read this one as it explains a lot about what happened in Harry Clifton’s life since 1920. The book focuses on the life of Harry Clifton and people around him during the years 1945 to 1957.

The Sins Of The Father ends at the moment where the judge is about to declare who would be inheriting the Barrington title, Harry Clifton or his best friend Giles Barrington after the death of Sir Walter Barrington. This judgement is announced at the beginning Best Kept Secret and sets the course of Harry Clifton’s unpredictable life.

Also, Harry Clifton’s latest book gets published and he goes to America to promote his book while his wife Emma tries to find out Jessica, who has got a past of her own and is related to Barrington family. Emma successfully manages to find her and the couple adopts her as their daughter because their 8 year old son, Sebastian Clifton wants a sister.

Also, Giles Barrington gets married to Lady Virginia who loathes his family and wants to get hold of everything that belongs to him and his sisters Emma and Grace. But things go absolutely wrong for her, all thanks to the content of the envelope given by Gile’s mother, Elizabeth Barrington to Harry Clifton before she leaves the world.

Also, as the book progresses, the focus of the story gets shifted to Sebastian Clifton. He plays an important role is defending his uncle Giles’s seat in the house of the Commons. Also, he wins a scholarship to Cambridge in 1957 and gets caught up in a mess and which is where this book ends.