The cultured, impulsive Schlegel sisters, Margaret and Helen, collide with the brisk, money-minded Wilcox family, and with Leonard Bast, a clerk clinging to the bottom rung of respectability. At the centre of their entanglements stands a small red-brick house with a wych-elm in the garden, and the question of who should inherit it.
Forster’s 1910 novel of class, money and the hope to “only connect” remains one of the sharpest portraits of Edwardian England. Download the free EPUB.