A Sunny Tale of Love and Liberation
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Lucy Honeychurch is a young English woman on her first trip abroad, to Italy. Accompanied by her spinster cousin Charlotte, she meets George Emerson and his father in the Pension Bertolini. The Emersons fascinate and appal Lucy at the same time: their unconventional views, George's passion and the fact that they are not of her own middle to upper class background.
Back in England, Lucy finds herself torn between two men and between her longing for independence and the repressing English society.
This classic novel of English literature (published in 1908) is an excellent criticism of English society of that time. But it is also a love story and a story of a woman's emancipation (as far as it went in 1908). How Lucy slowly becomes more and more determined about her wants in life and love, is described very well. However, sometimes the main characters' motivations were unclear.
„A Room with A View“ was my first novel by E.M. Forster. I liked his writing style very much, especially the witty and ironic way he describes the English and their morals in Italy. Unfortunately, his writing is more subtle later on.
I really liked the characters of the Honeychurch family and the Emersons, whereas I loved to hate Charlotte and Lucy's fiancee Cecil. Although Charlotte redeemed herself in the end, becoming a more complex character than I thought.
I liked „A Room With A View“ a lot, so I'd like to read more of E.M. Forster some day.