Early Reviewers

Hilda and Ernest are a typical married couple, squabbling their way through a day-trip. When they meet a pair of sailors they are both disturbed and unsettled, but their initial wariness gives way in an unlikely, and jolly, joint trip to a local landmark, which ends in surprise for both husband and wife… Elsewhere, a missionary struggles to convert a native chieftain in the dark and powerful ‘The Life to Come’, and an army captain is seduced on a journey to India with disastrous consequences. Never published during Forster’s lifetime, these eight stories explore his favoured themes of hypocrisy and class difference, and together form a revealing and varied collection from one of the twentieth century’s best-known literary figures.