Guild Publishing London, hardcover with dustjacket.
First reprint 1988


When Adela Quested joins her husband-to-be at an outpost of the British Raj, she is unprepared for the maelstrom she releases. In the drama of the Marabar Caves and the ordeal of Dr Aziz, Forster reflects the tension and lack of sympathy between the two cultures which was to culminate in the withdrawal of the British from the sub-continent.

The resounding success of David Lean's film A Passage to India, starring Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Alec Guinness, Judy Davis, James Fox, Nigel Havers and Victor Banerjee, reveals a widespread contemporary interest in Forster's work. A popularity which only a truly great writer could maintain for so long.