claire_fuller_writer 's review for:

A Room With a View by E.M. Forster

4.0

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I read this when this version was published in 1988, when I was an art student and decided rather than be able to eat I would buy a subscription to a book club. A collection of E.M. Forster's novels arrived in the post, and I was so excited. Sweet and witty (and surprisingly feminist), I really enjoyed this. The film was released in 1985 and although I might not have seen it since, as I read, the images in my head were of those actors. For those who don't know it is a fairly simple story about Lucy, a young woman in the 1890s who is kissed by George when they are both staying in a pensione in Florence. When he turns up in her village in England, of course her engagement to Mr Vyse is put at risk.