To Let (Vol. 3 of The Forsyte Saga)

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John Galsworthy

To Let (Volume 3 of The Forsyte Saga)
By John Galsworthy (1867-1933)

‘The Forsyte Saga’ is the story of a wealthy London family stretching
from the eighteen-eighties until the nineteen-twenties.

To Let is the third and final book in the saga (although Galsworthy
later published two further trilogies which extend the story). We
are now in 1920, about twenty years since Irene married Young
Jolyon and gave birth to John and since Soames married Annette,
who gave him a daughter, Fleur. The two sides of the family have
not met since those times and John and Fleur do not even know of each other's existence.

All the old Forsytes are dead except for Timothy. Val and Holly have returned from South
Africa and Val is training racehorses in Sussex. June has opened her gallery near Cork
Street.

Soames arranges to meet Fleur at June’s gallery and while there, and again later in a
patisserie, they see Irene and John. Soames ignores them but Fleur and John are attracted
to one another at a distance. As they leave, Fleur drops her handkerchief... (Summary by
Andy Minter)

Read by eva, Andy Minter, Lee Ann Howlett, & Simon Evers. Total running time: 11:26:24.

This recording is in the public domain and may be reproduced, distributed, or modified without permission. For
more information or to volunteer, visit librivox.org. Cover picture by Burr Mcintosh Studio (c. 1902). Author
photo by New York Times Company (1914-1915). Copyright expired in US, Canada, EU and all countries with
author's life +70 yrs laws. Cover design by Janette Brown. This design is in the public domain.

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