Book description
This sweeping family saga now moves to the lives and loves of the
Cherrells in the early 30s, cousins by marriage to the Forsytes. An old
English family, their one constant in an age of change and uncertainty
is their ancestral home, Condaford Grange. It is especially precious to
young Elizabeth Cherrell, or 'Dinny', whose family is everything to her.
And when her brother faces extradition to South America, falsely accused
of murder, and her cousin is threatened by her mentally unstable
husband, Dinny does everything she can to shield them from harm. John
Galsworthy was born on August 14, 1867, in Surrey and came from an
established, wealthy family. Called to the Bar in 1890, he soon decided
to abandon law and turn to writing. THE FORSYTE SAGA is his most
celebrated work, but he was also a successful dramatist. He was awarded
the Nobel Prize for literature in 1932. In 1891 Galsworthy met his
cousin's wife Ada Nemesis Pearson and they embarked on a scandalous
affair, eventually marrying after Ada's divorce in 1905. John Galsworthy
died on January 31, 1933.
