Where Angels Fear to Tread

Troublesome family scenarios are E.M. Forsters forte. In his debut novel Where Angels Fear to Tread, a relatively young English widow named Lilia Herriton goes to Italy at the advice of her deceased husband Charless family, accompanied by her friend Caroline Abbott, and, in a quaint little town called Monteriano, falls in love with an even younger hustler named Gino Carella and plans to marry him.