Only Time Will Tell by Jeffrey Archer

I enjoyed a lot of Jeffrey Archer books when I was a teenager, but it's probably 25 years since I've read one. I picked this one off my husband's bookshelf because I had nothing else to read. The book is the first in a series of seven that tell the story of Harry Clifton. Harry is a bright boy growing up between the wars under difficult circumstances. He has a beautiful voice that wins him a scholarship to a posh private school and his mother does her best to support him by working as a waitress.

There are some plot twists but Archer flags them before they happen. This makes the book very predictable. That said, the characters are interesting and likeable. On the one hand I want to read on and find out what happens to Harry (the next three books in the series are sitting on the shelf) on the other, I feel like I'm reading a modern Enid Blyton for grownups and I should go and buy a proper book.