A Prisoner of Birth

A blockbuster from one of the bestselling authors ofall time Danny Cartwright and Spencer Craig were born on different sidesof the track. Danny, an East End Cockney, leaves Clement AttleeComprehensive School at the age of 15 to take up a job at a localgarage. He falls in love with Beth, the boss’s daughter, andasks her to marry him. Spencer Craig resides in the West End. Agraduate of an English public school and Cambridge University.After leaving university he becomes a criminal barrister and issoon tipped to be the youngest Queen’s Counsel of hisgeneration. Danny and Beth travel up to the West End to celebrate theirengagement. They end the evening in a wine bar where Spencer Craigis also celebrating - his 30th birthday, along with a select groupof university chums. Although the two young men don’t meet, their lives willnever be the same again. For, an hour later, one of them is arrested for murder, whilethe other ends up as the Prosecution’s chief witness in an Old Bailey trial.