John Galsworthy devoted virtually his entire professional career to creating a fictional but entirely representative family of propertied Victorians, the Forsytes.

Maid in Waiting is the beginning novel in the last trilogy of John Galsworthy’s Forsyte Chronicles.

The Man of Property, the first novel in Galsworthy’s epic social satire The Forsyte Saga, introduces us to Soames Forsyte, a solicitor and prominent man of his important family.

Clare Charwell has just fled her sadistic husband to England. Along the way she has met the charming Tony Croom. When she refuses to return to her husband, he falsely accuses her of adultery with Tony in a highly public court trial.

Soames Forsyte has mellowed with age into a benign guardian of his daughters welfare. But all his watchfulness and devotion are powerless to avert the tragedy when Fleur revives her old love affair with Jon Forsyte.

The White Monkey is fourth in the nine novels of the Forsyte Chronicles, Galsworthy's masterly narrative of the British propertied class, examining not only their fortunes but also the wider developments within society.