Summary
Sure enough, her first sentence ("One may as well begin with Jerome's e-mails to his father") echoes the opening of Howards End: "One may as well begin with Helen's letters to her sister." Those letters to [Margaret Schlegel] begin by describing the fascinatingly worldly Wilcox family, with which Helen is staying at Howards End. They continue by announcing (all too precipitately) that she has fallen in love and intends to marry the younger son of the family, Paul.
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A Touch of Forster
FICTION 1
A touch of Forster On Beauty Zadie Smith Hamish Hamilton, 464pp, £16.99In her "acknowledgements", Zadie Smith informs us: "It should be obvious from the first line that this is a novel inspired by a love of E M Forster, to whom all my fiction is indebted, one way or the other. This time I wanted to ...See the full content of this document
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