H.G. Wells is best remembered as a central figure in the development of the science fiction genre.
However, much of his literary output was more conventional in nature, and he published a number of novels dealing with interpersonal relationships and social themes. The novel is a thinly-veiled autobiography that depicts an English gentleman, Sir Richard Hardy, who is attempting to sort out his marital problems while he travels the English countryside in the company of a psychiatrist and much brilliant discussion ranging over the past and future topics of world-wide significance.
The Secret Places of the Heart was, in many ways, a love letter from Wells to Sanger... Many critics regard The Secret Places of the Heart as a heavily autobiographical account of one of Wells failed love affairs.
