As the house was too small for his growing family , his father sold Grove Lodge to the novelist John Galsworthy in 1918 .
They moved to Buckinghamshire , on the outskirts of Beaconsfield .
As the house was too small for his growing family , his father sold Grove Lodge to the novelist John Galsworthy in 1918 and they moved to Buckinghamshire , on the outskirts of Beaconsfield .