In Chancery

  • Author: John Galsworthy
  • Publisher: John Galsworthy
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Synopsis

In Chancery is the second novel of the Forsyte Saga trilogy by John Galsworthy and was published in 1920, . Like its predecessor it focuses on the personal affairs of a wealthy upper middle class English family. The 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....