At first I agreed with Katherine Mansfield. Forster was only warming the teapot and there would be no tea! But then everything started coming together. Margaret became clearer, Howards End reappeared and I began to understand the social, intellectual and emotional differences between the two families. Just as I began to grasp all this there was Evie's wedding and the novel was unputdownable after that. DO NOT stop reading this book without at least finding and reading Margaret's wonderful speech. Like me you probably will be racing to the end after that!

In the little plastic library on the left hand side of the road as you drive towards the lake.