"When I came across the idea for this novel a few years ago, I knew it was bigger in scope than anything I'd done before and I accepted that the research alone would be more demanding than anything I'd tackled in the past. When I finally sat down to write Adam and Eve I also realised, by the end of the first draft, that this was going to be my final novel,"
"The 85-year-old author has sold more than 300m books around the world since his first novel, Not a Penny More Not a Penny Less, was published in 1976, according to his publishers. His 1979 novel, Kane and Abel, was his biggest hit, selling more than 34m copies in 119 countries and 47 languages, and being reprinted more than 130 times."
"Despite selling hundreds of millions of books, which were often praised as compellingly readable, Archer failed to win over many critics over the decades. To open one of his books was to risk being assaulted by a hectic claque of cliche, mixed metaphor, implausibility, solecism and sheer, unadulterated stodginess sufficient to send most readers screaming in breathless delirium to the mature, lucid and urgent pages of Barbara Car"
Jeffrey Archer, aged 85, will publish Adam and Eve in English in October as his 31st and final novel, fifty years after his 1976 debut Not a Penny More Not a Penny Less. Sales since 1976 exceed 300 million copies worldwide. Kane and Abel (1979) sold more than 34 million copies in 119 countries and 47 languages and was reprinted over 130 times. HarperCollins describes Adam and Eve as a powerful story weaving love, betrayal and the stark realities of a world at war. Archer described the project as more demanding in research and declared it his final long-form work, while leaving open short stories.
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