∗only connect: the house holds what hearts cannot

It isn't going to be what we expected.

We females are that unjust.

The truth was that she had fallen in love, not with an individual, but w…

We recognize that emotion is not enough, and that men and women are pers…

∗Forster traces the collision between England's liberal, introspective intelligentsia and its pragmatic, imperial business class through the prism of a house and the bonds it creates.

Class and connection collide when an English family encounters a country house and each other.