The Forsyte Saga 5: The Silver Spoon: 05 - Softcover

Galsworthy, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0755340892 ISBN 13: 9780755340897

Publisher: Headline Review, 2007

Synopsis

Living in their elegant, fashionable house in Westminster, Fleur and Michael Mont mix with and entertain the glittering society characters of the day. As always, Soames Forsyte is constantly by the side of his daughter Fleur, spoiling and watching over her. But London after the war is a place of carefree, 'live for today' attitudes which are alarming and baffling to old Soames. And just when he thinks he's protecting his daughter, he finds himself triggering a major society scandal...

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Review:

Praise for THE FORSYTE SAGA: 'An immortal achievement...it is, at all levels, readability itself (Financial Times)

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 (Scotsman)

THE FORSYTE SAGA was such a cracking good story...compulsive, as well as very modern and outrageous (Sunday Times)

Still a terrific read, a satisfying, long, absorbing family story...which knocks spots off its pale imitators (Susan Hill)

The books I most wish I'd written (Penny Vincenzi)

From the Author:

"In naming this second part of The Forsyte Chronicles 'A modern comedy' the word comedy is stretched, perhaps, as far as the word Saga was stretched to cover the first part. And yet, what but a comedic view can be taken, what but comedic significance gleaned, of so restive a period as that in which we have lived since the war?" -- John Galsworthy

About this edition

• Publisher: Headline Review
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0755340892
• ISBN 13: 9780755340897
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320