

After her death, her Italian and English families fight for custody of her son by Gino. Lilia’s story ends unhappily as she realizes that Gino has married her for her money and that she can never be reintegrated into middle-class English life. Where Angels Fear to Tread covers similar thematic territory to those novels, concerning a young woman, Lilia Herriton, who attempts to escape the snobbery and repression of her life in Edwardian England through a passionate affair with an Italian man from a lower-class background, Gino Carella. Forster, best known for his later novels A Room With a View (1908) and A Passage to India (1924). Where Angels Fear to Tread is a 1905 novel by the British writer E.M.
