As The Crow Flies

As The Crow Flies

by Jeffrey Archer

3.67 out of 5 (9 ratings)

Format:
Paperback 
Pages:
200 
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan 
Publication Date:
05 November 2010 
Category:
Modern & Contemporary 
ISBN:
9780330518697 

Description

If your dream is big enough, not even your enemies can stop you ...Charlie Trumper's earliest memory is of hearing his grandfather's sales patter from behind his costermonger's barrow. When Grandpa Charlie dies, young Charlie wants nothing more than to follow in his footsteps - his burning ambition is to own a shop that will sell everything: 'The Biggest Barrow in the World'. Charlie's progress from the teeming streets of Whitechapel to the elegance of Chelsea Terrace is only a few miles as the crow flies. But in Jeffrey Archer's expert hands it becomes an epic journey through the triumphs and disasters of the century, as Charlie follows a thread of love, ambition and revenge to fulfil the dream his grandfather inspired.

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  • Again I read one more great story from JA. My favorite story teller. I wonder how can the author make so many twists in one story and finally brought to a good end.

    5.00 out of 5

    Bennyjon

  • Jeffrey Archer is on our CP English booklist. I love most of his books...they remind me of Tom Clancy.

    4.50 out of 5

    MrsHillReads

  • When Charlie Trumper inherits his grandfather's fruit and vegetable barrow, he inherits as well his enterprising spirit, which gives Charlie the drive to lift himself out of the proverty of Whitechapel, in London's East End. Success, however, does not come easiy or quickly, particularly when WWI sends Charlie into combat and into an ongoing struggle with a vengeful enemy who will not rest until Charlie is destroyed.

    4.50 out of 5

    roninc30

  • This is a rags-to-riches tale of East End barrow-boys, supermarkets, boardroom politics, war and vegetables. If anyone had told me in advance I would really like it I would have laughed, but looking back I know I was gripped by it. It is full of twists and turns, cliffhangers and things that seem to mean one thing and actually mean another.

    4.00 out of 5

    jayne_charles

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