In this final volume of The Forsyte Saga Galsworthy writes about the
lives and loves of the Cherrell family, cousins of the Forsytes. For
centuries, the Cherrell sons have left their home of Condaford Grange to
serve the state as soldiers, clergymen and administrators, but the 1930s
bring uncertainty in a world of rapidly altering morals and
unemployment. Galsworthy's portrayal of the effect of political change
on individuals show him as a great social novelist as well as the author
of one of the most gripping family sagas ever written.