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 everything: `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.