A review by ladydewinter
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster

3.0

While certainly not Forster's best novel, it's definitely worth reading if only for his narrative voice. I love his sense of humour and while it's obvious he's still trying to figure out how best to use his voice (actually I suspect that is true even for an author's last novel) I still enjoyed reading this.

(I have to say though that everything involving The Baby felt like he had never seen one in real life. It's like in those romance novels where one character has a kid and they always feel like a prop and never like a character. But tbh that made the tragedy of the book easier to bear at least for me. It feels a lot less abstract. Probably not what Forster intended, but hey.)

And I really liked Ruth Padel's introduction.