A Prisoner of Birth

Jeffrey Archer

ISBN 10: 0230531423 / ISBN 13: 9780230531420

Published by Macmillan, 2008

About this Item

First printing, signed by the author without dedication, light wear to the sleeved dust jacket and a few marks to the tanned page edges. Shipped from the UK in recyclable card packaging.

Seller Inventory # pb087-224-0374

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Prisoner of Birth
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0230531423
• ISBN 13: 9780230531420
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: abe signed

About this title

Synopsis

Danny Cartwright and Spencer Craig were born on different sides of the track. Danny, an East End Cockney, leaves Clement Attlee Comprehensive School at the age of 15 to take up a job at a local garage. He falls in love with Beth, the boss' daughter, and asks her to marry him. Spencer Craig resides in the West End. A graduate of an English public school and Cambridge University. After leaving university he becomes a criminal barrister and is soon tipped to be the youngest Queen's Counsel of his generation. Danny and Beth travel up to the West End to celebrate their engagement. They end the evening in a wine bar where Spencer Craig is also celebrating - his 30th birthday, along with a select group of university chums. Their lives will never be the same again. For, an hour later, one of them is arrested for murder, while the other ends up as the Prosecution's chief witness in an Old Bailey trial.

About the Author

Jeffrey Archer, whose novels and short stories include the Clifton Chronicles, Kane and Abel and Cat O’ Nine Tales, is one of the world’s favourite storytellers and has topped the bestseller lists around the world in a career spanning four decades. His work has been sold in 97 countries and in more than 37 languages. He is the only author ever to have been a number one bestseller in fiction, short stories and non-fiction (The Prison Diaries).

Jeffrey is also an art collector and amateur auctioneer, and has raised more than £50m for different charities over the years. 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.