&quot;Where Angels Fear to Tread&quot; is a novel by E.M. Forster published in 1905.&nbsp;<br /><br />The novel, Forster&rsquo;s first, describes events in the life of Lilia, a young English widow who falls in love with an Italian man to the disapproval of her family.&nbsp;<br /><br />Experts on Forster&rsquo;s work place &quot;Where Angels Fear to Tread&quot; in a category along with &quot;A Room With a View&quot;, which is also set in Italy and features an English protagonist, and which explores similar themes of class differences and bourgeois obsessions with appearances.&nbsp;<br />The novel was acclaimed and considered remarkable by critics who marvelled that it was the author&rsquo;s first, though it was not ultimately the best-known or most successful of his works.<br /><br />&quot;Where Angels Fear to Tread&quot; was made into a 1991 film starring Helena Bonham Carter and Rupert Graves.