![]() ![]() Well, thank you Sarah for telling me to persevere – I loved Howards End. Plus, having loudly proclaimed my love for Susan Hill’s Howards End is on the Landing, it seemed only right that I read the novel which inspired the title. A reliable friend told me that she’d felt the same way about those novels, but loved Howards End – I couldn’t make myself read it unaided, so persuaded my book group to read alongside me. ![]() ![]() Both were obviously well written books, but neither quite worked for me, and I found them more of a chore than a pleasure. I admired, but didn’t particularly relish reading, A Room With A View and A Passage to India. Well, ladies and gents, it’s happened again! This time, courtesy of Mr. I wrote quite a lot last year about being Third Time Lucky with Muriel Spark and Evelyn Waugh – after not loving a couple of their novels, I was bowled over by the third I read. ![]()
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