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Saint's Progress

Author
John Galsworthy
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
9 hours 10 minutes
ISBN
9781836104087
Published
2 May 2026
Imprint
Sovereign
  • clergyman protagonist
  • father-daughter relationship
  • wartime romance
  • moral conflict
  • grief and loss
  • family dynamics
  • spiritual struggle
  • protective parenthood
  • love and duty
  • emotional resilience

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Description

Clergyman Edward Pierson, widowed, reunites with daughters Gratian and Noel as war closes in on ordinary faith. Noel loves young officer Cyril Morland, bound for danger, and Edward’s code of protection begins to fail the young when love and pregnancy collide with his pulpit. Fatherhood, duty, and a changing moral weather press a saint’s conscience until it cracks under the cost of care.

Author

John Galsworthy (1867–1933) helped shape the English novel's passage from Victorian certainties to twentieth-century doubt. A barrister who turned to literature in his thirties, he wrote with an insider's knowledge of the leisured classes and a reformer's impatience with their complacency. The Forsyte Saga made him famous — a multi-generational study of money, marriage, and the hunger to own.

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