The Forsyte Saga
by John Galsworthy. “Saga” is apt. This book’s 800 plus pages (it’s actually three books and two novellas) are why I haven’t had more contributions to the list this year. It’s a family saga about an upper middle class British family from the Victorian era through the 1920s. Galsworthy won the Nobel Prize for fiction in 1932 for Forsyte. Brilliant writing, fascinating characters, loads of things happen. And now I can treat myself to a beautiful BBC miniseries made from it (one of several). I link to the Oxford Kindle version, but I think there are free kindle versions, too, though I cannot vouch for them.
