Title: In Chancery
Description: The sequel to The Man of Property, published some fourteen years previously, this novel concentrates on the marital failures of Soames Forsyte and to a lesser extent that of his sister Winifred Dartie and on the building antipathy between Soames and his cousin Young Jolyon Forsyte who develops a friendship with Soames' estranged wife Irene. This friendship eventually leads to an affair and Irene's divorce from Soames.
Subjects: Fiction, Forsyte family (Fictitious characters), Social life and customs, Families, Family, Forsyte family (Fictitious family), England, fiction, Forsyte family (fictitious characters), fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, sagas, Fiction, historical, general
Places: England
People: The Forsyte Saga
Time periods: Early 20th century, 1920's