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London of the 1880s: The Forsyte family is gathered – gloves, waistcoats, feathers and frocks – to celebrate the engagement of young June Forstye to an architect, Philip Bosinney. The family are intrigued but wary of this stranger in their midst, who they nickname ‘the Buccaneer’. Amongst those present are Soames Forsyte and his beautiful wife Irene – his most prized possession. With that meeting a chain of heartbreaking and tragic events is set in motion that will split the family to the very core…
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Praise for THE FORSYTE SAGA: 'An immortal achievement...it is, at all levels, readability itself
Just because they were set in a world of frock-coats and ornate drawing rooms, we should not be blind to their modern dilemmas... the satire is sharp, the dialogue, elegant and witty, and the characterisation - dazzling
THE FORSYTE SAGA was such a cracking good story...compulsive, as well as very modern and outrageous
Still a terrific read, a satisfying, long, absorbing family story...which knocks spots off its pale imitators
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