Jeffrey Archer was a Member of Parliament and a rich and successful businessman - one of life's winners.
Then his world crashed about his ears. He went bankrupt.
He sold his house and his luxury car, gave up his seat in Parliament, and scratched his head.
But he did not give up hope. With time on his hands, he wrote a novel. From then on the story is too good to be true. The npvel became a best-seller. So did the next one. Jeffrey Archer became one of the most successful writers in Britain and he paid off his debts.
There is a famous precedent for this. At the beginning of the 19th century, Sir Walter Scoot, a succesfull poet and also Sheriff in the Scottish Court, went into partnership with an old schoolfriend. Their business was printing and publishing. But in 1813 they were nearly bankrupt.
Scoot wrote more than three novels a year to keep the company out of trouble. His books were hugely succesfull, and when he died in 1831 his work amounted to forty-eight volumes of novels and tales, and twelve volumes of poetry.
They include Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and the story which Donizetti used for his famous opera, Lucia di Lammermoor.
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