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  • By: Jeffrey Archer
  • Narrated by: Roger Allam
  • Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
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Summary

Nominated for the Audiobook Download of the Year, 2008.

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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.

©2008 Jeffrey Archer (P)2008 Macmillan Digital Audio

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"Bestseller Archer...pays homage to Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo in this delicious updating of the adventure classic." ( Publishers Weekly)

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Superb

The plot, characters and pace are superb. The creative links are to be enoyed. No cliches and no pap.

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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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Great listen

This is the first Jeffrey Archer book I have listened to. It had me captivated from start to end.

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Hooked from the start

Just ‘couldn’t put it down’ . Such a brilliant book, I didn’t want it to end yet I couldn’t stop listening. A masterpiece by a master storyteller and a fantastic job done by the narrator, Roger Allam. Do yourself a favour....

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Another masterpiece from Jeffrey!!

Gripping story from start to finish. Full of characters which you can truly imagine. Very well narrated by Roger Allan. Thoroughly entertaining. Would highly recommend.

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Prisoners of Birth

Brilliant, fabulous listening with amazing narrator. Complex story which I couldn’t stop listening too. Highly recommended

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Well crafted story superbly performed.

As soon as I finished this I wanted to listen again, which I almost never do. Archers reworking of the Count of Monte Cristo is masterful. Roger Allam's performance is flawless. i almost never re-read or listen to an audio book twice. A prisoner of birth will be the exception.

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Novel Perfection !

As good as Kane and Abel or maybe better ! Well done Mr Archer 👍

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Wonderful

Once again Jeffrey Archer has wrote a humdinger of a book. Enjoyed every minute of it.Roger Allam did an amazing narration .The story had me hooked from the first chapter .

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What a story !

This is one of the most gripping audio books I have listened too - superbly written. The Court Room exchange between the Scottish Solicitor and the Judge was a joy to behold: Great narration which really brought the story to life.

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