text: In a novel by this author, a doctor who is treating bee stings has a boating accident with an estranged friend as they watch a nearby religious festival.
full_question: In a novel by this author, a doctor who is treating bee stings has a boating accident with an estranged friend as they watch a nearby religious festival. A character created by this writer visits the hypnotist Dr. Lasker Jones, falls in love with the gamekeeper Alec Scudder, and appears in a novel published posthumously in 1971. Cyril Fielding misses a train in a plot point devised by this author, who wrote about the nature of homosexual relationships in early 20th-Century Britain in his novel Maurice. For 10 points, name this author of A Passage to India.
first_sentence: In a novel by this author, a doctor who is treating bee stings has a boating accident with an estranged friend as they watch a nearby religious festival.