Book info

• Title Cometh the Hour
• Author Jeffrey Archer
• Year 2016
• Genre Historical

There are devastating consequences for Harry and Emma Clifton, her brother Giles Barrington and their arch enemy Lady Virginia when a suicide note is read out in court. Having fallen in love, Giles must decide if he should withdraw from politics to try and rescue the woman he loves from behind the Iron Curtain. Lady Virginia faces bankruptcy, and can see no way out of her financial problems, until she is introduced to a rich, hapless American. Harry and Emma’s son Sebastian Clifton, now the Chief Executive of Farthings Bank, falls in love with the wrong girl even as his rivals plot to overthrow him. Meanwhile, his father remains determined to free a fellow author from a gulag in Siberia, following the international success of the book they wrote together, the acclaimed Uncle Joe. But then something astonishing happens that none of them could have anticipated...

Thoughts

The penultimate book in the Clifton Chronicles and at last it seems as though the threads are starting to draw together - and people are starting to get what they deserve. This book contains plenty of drama and twists and turns, but I must admit the endless scenes in law courts and boardroom meetings are starting to wear thin.

I really liked the appearance of young Jessica, a more precocious child you’d be hard pushed to find, but she’s eminently likeable which makes it worthwhile.

Meanwhile, Harry and Emma continue to be goody-two-shoes but it seems like we might finally be on the verge of revealing some long-held family secrets, so I’ll be reading the next book, if only to get some closure on the sprawling saga.

Rating: 3 / 5