Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy

Went into it because I saw the BBC show adaptation (2007), knew it would be a long satisfying and perhaps challenging read in terms of focus. First 2 pages made me think it was going to do the "overly verbose victorian novel" shtick that Sherlock Holmes and gothic horror books do, but it quickly became very flowing; genuinely losing the passage of time while I read it.