Wow. A book hasn't had me this gripped or made me cry so much for years. Feeling somewhat heartbroken. Galsworthy's writing is just about perfect and his character Dinny so real I'm feeling emotionally raw. ( )

certainly to be recommended and not just by Forsyte devotees interested to know what happens next (these books take even more of an about turn from the early parts of the saga). Galworthy writes with ease and interest; it feels as if he is interested to know what happens as a dispassionate observer, rather than as passionately engaged as with the story of Soames et al. Sexual manners and more remain at the heart of the novel, but there is an unbending and a blossoming that perhaps makes some of the trauma of the earlier books easier to bear