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A Prisoner of Birth
- Narrated by: Roger Allam
- Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
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You heard it here first: The unabridged edition of A Prisoner of Birth is only available as a download.
This download also includes an interview with Jeffrey Archer about A Prisoner of Birth.
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's daughter, and asks her to marry him.
Spencer Craig resides in the West End. A graduate of an English public school and Cambridge 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.
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- Jamie
- 13-02-11
A Prisoner of Birth
Awesome!
I haven't read a Archer book in several years as I have been reading pretty much everything else - Connelly, Leather, Rankin, Cole, Child etc etc BUT after remembering how good 'Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less' was, I thought I would give him a go again. Thankfully I can say he has lost none of his skill at spinning a wicked tale that keeps you on your toes from beginning to end! The way he constructs likeable and loathsome characters is top drawer. A great yarn and it puts Mr Archer right back up near the top of my favourites list along with Lee Child, Stephen Leather and Ian Rankin, however, as I have exhausted all their books I can see many Archer books being consumed in the next few months!
Again - Awesome!
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- Paul
- 08-06-13
First book by this author for me. Very enjoyable
At nearly 16 and a half hours this is quite a long book but the story is easily strong enough to make it worthy of being this long. There are some court scenes that could have bogged down the pace but these were well written and the story is well paced. Roger Allam is a brilliant reader, he really brought the characters in the story to life and I was really sorry when I reached the end. This is highly recommended from me
Paul H
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- R Roach
- 16-12-20
Best book that I’ve read and listened to!
Great story with lots of twists, excellent story tellers with playable ascents.
Amazed how much knowledge the Author has and/or researched.
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- jackie2735
- 08-05-19
captivating story
another brilliant book from Jeffrey Archer. the parallel lives of Sacha and Alex were well written and kept me with them throughout
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- Luke Beazley-Long
- 19-03-21
Had me gripped from beginning to end!
The best book I've listened to. I've never been interested in reading a jeffrey archer book until someone told me I would not be disappointed with this. I thought I'd give it a go and was not disappointed. The story was incredible and had me hooked from the start. very cleverly written and believable characters. the narration brought the book and characters to life with real representation. I would thoroughly recommend this book to anyone. superb
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- P M Hindley
- 05-05-21
Great
Loved this book. Didn't want it to finish. Great story line and a superb narrator.
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- Dub-SEK
- 04-03-19
Again easy to listen to
a tribute to the count if monte cristo. Cartwight plays the famous role of edmond dentes..
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- M. Emslie
- 30-04-18
A wonderful story that will keep you on the edge of your seat
This book is fantastic! I love Jeffrey Archer, but this is in the top 3 of my favourite books by him. A wonderful story with twists and turns that will keep you gripped until the very last page. I had this as an audio book and listened to it on my 2 hour journey to work. This was the only time I wished my journey was longer! The narration is wonderful! The only bad part was the emptiness I felt when it was over! I would highly recommend this book! I can’t praise it enough!
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- Tipsytrish
- 31-07-20
Brilliant narrator
I really enjoyed listening to this book mainly because of the narrator who brought all the characters to life. The storyline is actually preposterous. How two prisoners could look so alike as to be mistaken for each other by the prison authorities is frankly unbelievable. But that doesn't seem to matter. As you listen to how Danny manages to firstly outwit Nick's scheming uncle and then get revenge on the men who had him sent to prison unjustly in the first place you get drawn into a cracking yarn.
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-08-20
Gripping, east listening
Wonderfully delivered dialect by Roger Allan, I read this book years ago but decided to try it out on audible. I'm so glad I did.
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