num_pages: 4
description: Charlie Trumper's earliest memory is of hearing his grandfather's sales patter from behind his costermonger's barrow. When Grandpa Charlie dies, young Charlie wants nothing more than to follow in his footsteps - his burning ambition is to own a shop that will sell 'The Biggest Barrow in the World'. Charlie's progress from the teeming streets of Whitechapel to the elegance of Chelsea Terrace is only a few miles as the crow flies. But in Jeffrey Archer's expert hands it becomes an epic journey through the triumphs and disasters of the century, as Charlie follows a thread of love, ambition and revenge to fulfil the dream his grandfather inspired. 'Monumentally gripping ...a compulsive epic' - "Mail on Sunday".
language: English
title: As the Crow Flies
titlecomplete: As the Crow Flies
genres: Fiction, Historical, Mystery, Thriller, British Literature, Drama, Mystery Thriller, Novels, Historical Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 23058
places: London, England
publisher: Macmillan