My first intimation of the possibilities of fiction’ – Zadie Smith ‘He says, and even more implies, things that no other novelist does, and we can go on reading Forster indefinitely’ – The Times Will she ever learn to follow her own heart?
Lucy finds herself torn between the intensity of life in Italy and the repressed morals of Victorian England, personified in her terminally dull fiancé Cecil Vyse. Her eyes are opened by the unconventional characters she meets at the Pension Pertolini: flamboyant romantic novelist Eleanor Lavish, the Cockney Signora, curious Mr Emerson and, most of all, his passionate son George. Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance. ‘You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you …’ Read on for our review and quotes from this classic novel. A Room with a View by E M Forster is a satiric comedy of manners with a refreshing current of irreverence that contemporary readers will enjoy.
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