Where Angels Fear To Tread
Author: E.M. Forster
On travelling to Italy with her friend Caroline Abbot, the impulsive English widow Lilia Herriton outrages her dead husband’s family by meeting and quickly becoming engaged to a dashing but deeply unsuitable Italian man twelve years her junior. Infuriated, her ex-brother-in-law Philip sets off from England to her new home in the Tuscan town of Monteriano – but finding hims….Read More
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