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The Patrician

Author
John Galsworthy
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
9 hours 6 minutes
ISBN
9781836104094
Published
2 May 2026
Imprint
Sovereign
  • aristocratic family
  • British nobility
  • social hierarchy
  • political duty
  • tradition versus change
  • family legacy
  • class privilege
  • generational conflict
  • Edwardian society
  • personal desire

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Lord Miltoun, Caradoc heir at Monkland Court, loves Mrs Audrey Noel while he stands for Parliament. Lady Barbara, radical Courtier, and Lord Valleys’s caste close around a woman the party cannot accept. Division bells and house hush follow: duty against desire inside an aristocracy that treats feeling as a dangerous leak in the bloodline.

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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