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In Chancery by John Galsworthy (1867 - 1933)
Genre(s): Family Life

Read by: Peter Dann in English

Parts:

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - Indian Summer of a Forstye: 1
00:38:33 - 02 - Indian Summer of a Forstye: 2
00:53:22 - 03 - Indian Summer of a Forstye: 3
01:12:26 - 04 - Indian Summer of a Forstye: 4
01:24:47 - 05 - Indian Summer of a Forstye: 5
01:54:31 - 06 - At Timothy's
02:15:37 - 07 - Exit a man of the world
02:42:18 - 08 - Soames prepares to take steps
02:54:03 - 09 - Soho
03:08:49 - 10 - James sees visions
03:21:38 - 11 - No longer young Jolyon at home
03:43:28 - 12 - The colt and the filly
03:54:17 - 13 - Jolyon prosecutes trusteeship
04:10:02 - 14 - Val hears the news
04:27:23 - 15 - Soames entertains the future
04:36:45 - 16 - And visits the past
04:48:37 - 17 - On Forsyte 'change
05:12:10 - 18 - Jolyon finds out where he is
05:24:27 - 19 - Soames discovers what he wants
05:32:02 - 20 - The third generation
05:51:00 - 21 - Soames puts it to the touch
06:10:27 - 22 - Visit to Irene
06:22:37 - 23 - Where Forsytes fear to tread
06:38:12 - 24 - Jolly sits in judgement
06:56:05 - 25 - Jolyon in two minds

For a late Victorian Briton, to be 'in chancery' could mean literally to be involved in a law suit (such as, for example, a divorce suit) being heard in a Court of Chancery, or, more broadly, to be trapped in any awkward predicament almost impossible to untangle (as law suits heard in the Court of Chancery often tended to be).In this, the second volume of The Forsyte Saga, wealthy lawyer Soames Forsyte struggles to free himself from a situation he finds almost impossibly awkward, given the divorce laws of his time. Though it is now a dozen or so years since he and his wife Irene split up, they have never divorced. Soames is now desperate to have a son. What can he do? He knows that Irene is now keeping company with his cousin Jolyon. Can he persuade her to come back to him? Or should he, instead, take the risky course of attempting to prove to the world that the woman he still aches after is an adulteress, publicly shame her and divorce her, and marry a pretty French woman half his age in hopes that she will bear him the son he craves?(Summary by Peter Dann)