End of the Chapter - Book III - Over the River

By Galsworthy, John

The Forsyte Saga is Galsworthy’s trilogy about the eponymous family and connected lives. These books, as with many of his other works, deal with social class, upper-middle class lives in particular. Although sympathetic to his characters, he highlights their insular, snobbish, and acquisitive attitudes and their suffocating moral codes. He is viewed as one of the first writers of the Edwardian era who challenged some of the ideals of society depicted in the preceding literature of Victorian England. The depiction of a woman in an unhappy marriage furnishes another recurring theme in his work.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Read Books Ltd.
• Release date: Apr 10, 2014
• ISBN: 9781473393493

Reviews for End of the Chapter - Book III - Over the River

[helenliz_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This book focusses on Dinny & Clare. They are both having romance issues of very different types. Dinny is still holding a torch for Wilfred, while Clare has left her husband and is being sued for divorce. They are support by the usual cast of family and friends. In the early books in the series, I said that I didn't think that Galsworthy could write women very well, but in Dinny he redeems himself. She is entirely believable and utterly human. I like her. As an end this is an optimistic conclusion to a series that doesn't always see affairs of the heart turn out well.