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Be careful what you wish for a novel

Archer, Jeffrey 1940- (Author). Jennings, Alex. (Narrator). Macmillan Audio (Firm) (Added Author).

Summary: Be Careful What You Wish For opens with Harry Clifton and his wife Emma rushing to hospital to learn the fate of their son Sebastian, who has been involved in a fatal car accident. But who died, Sebastian or his best friend Bruno? When Ross Buchanan is forced to resign as chairman of the Barrington Shipping Company, Emma Clifton wants to replace him. But Don Pedro Martinez intends to install his puppet, the egregious Major Alex Fisher, in order to destroy the Barrington family firm just as the company plans to build its new luxury liner, the MV Buckingham. Back in London, Harry and Emma's adopted daughter wins a scholarship to the Slade Academy of Art where she falls in love with a fellow student, Clive Bingham, who asks her to marry him. Both families are delighted until Priscilla Bingham, Jessica's future mother-in-law, has a visit from an old friend, Lady Virginia Fenwick, who drops her particular brand of poison into the wedding chalice. Then, without warning, Cedric Hardcastle, a bluff Yorkshireman who no one has come across before, takes his place on the board of Barringtons. This causes an upheaval that none of them could have anticipated, and will change the lives of every member of the Clifton and Barrington families. Hardcastle's first decision is who to support to become the next chairman of the board: Emma Clifton or Major Alex Fisher' And with that decision, the story takes yet another twist that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

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  • ISBN: 9781427243256
  • ISBN: 1427243255
  • Physical Description: electronic resource
    access
    remote
    1 online resource (1 sound file (11 hr., 39 min., 37 sec.)) : digital.
  • Edition: Unabridged.
  • Publisher: New York : Macmillan Audio, ℗2014.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Downloadable audio file.
Participant or Performer Note: Narrated by Alex Jennings.
Subject: Family secrets -- Fiction
Families -- Great Britain -- Fiction
Social classes -- Great Britain -- Fiction
Fiction
FICTION -- Sagas
Families
Family secrets
Social classes
Great Britain
Genre: Downloadable audio books.
Audiobooks.
Fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.
Audiobooks.

  • AudioFile Reviews : AudioFile Reviews 2014 July
    Emma Clifton rushes to the hospital to learn the fate of her son, who has been injured in a car crash. This scene launches a story packed with compelling twists and turns. Alex Jennings's skillful narration deftly unveils the large cast of characters as they maneuver through the nonstop action. The likable Harry and Emma Clifton are pitted against the manipulations of venal Don Pedro Martinez. After the ominous beginning, the story progresses through betrayals and unlikely alliances as Barrington Shipping struggles to build and launch a luxury ocean liner. Jennings connects with each character for a satisfying, enjoyable listen. M.N.T. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine
  • Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews - Audio And Video Online Reviews 1991-2018
    The fourth installment in the Clifton Chronicles spans not quite a decade, from the late 1950s to the mid-'60s. Major upheavals are in store for the Clifton family, including a near-fatal auto accident (which opens the book) that nearly takes the life of Harry and Emma's son, Sebastian, and that is soon revealed to have been no accident; and a shake-up in the power structure of the family business, the Barrington Shipping Company, that sees the return of a persistent villain. British actor Jennings turns in a sterling performance here, tackling the large, multinational cast with gusto: he not only gives us a variety of English accents (upper class, working class, and regional variations) but he also gives us an excellent Argentinean accent (for Don Pedro Martinez, one of the story's major villains); a spot-on Scottish accent (for one of the board members at the shipping company); and a passable, if slightly British-inflected, American accent (for Harry's U.S. literary agent). An epic-sized performance for this epic-sized story. Copyright 2019 Booklist Reviews.
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