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Tatterdemalion

Author
John Galsworthy
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
6 hours 5 minutes
ISBN
9781836104018
Published
30 April 2026
Imprint
Sovereign
  • World War I
  • wartime France
  • elderly widow
  • compassion
  • charity work
  • wounded soldiers
  • resilience
  • loneliness
  • human connection
  • social realism

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Tatterdemalion by John Galsworthy portrays an aging widow in wartime southern France, living quietly amid the strains of World War I. Though frail, she devotes herself to comforting wounded soldiers with small acts of kindness. Through her past and present, Galsworthy highlights resilience, compassion, and the enduring human spirit in times of loss.

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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