E. M. Forster 
Where Angels Fear to Tread 

Troublesome family scenarios are E.M. Forster’s forte. In his debut novel 'Where Angels Fear to Tread, ’ a relatively young English widow named Lilia Herriton goes to Italy at the advice of her deceased husband Charles’s family, accompanied by her friend Caroline Abbott, and, in a quaint little town called Monteriano, falls in love with an even younger hustler named Gino Carella and plans to marry him.