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A stunning new edition of Forster''s classic novel
With a new introduction by Sarah Winman, bestselling author of Still Life
''One of the most beautiful, poignant and poetic love stories, as relevant today as it was then''
SARAH WINMAN
''My first intimation of the possibilities of fiction''
ZADIE SMITH
''Brimming with yearning and desire . . . a novel I return to often''
CALEB AZUMAH NELSON
''You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.''
Young, impressionable Lucy Honeychurch arrives in Italy for the first time, dependent on a Baedeker travel guide and her stern chaperone, Miss Bartlett. Staying at the Pension Bertolini, where a group of unusual characters come together, Lucy explores the basilicas and piazzas of Florence, the romantic charm of Italy beginning to wo