Miss Lucy Honeychurch lives the well-ordered life of a typical Edwardian middle-class miss—quiet, sedate, boring. On a trip to Florence with her older cousin Charlotte, Lucy meets the eccentric Mr. Emerson and his son George, who offer to switch rooms with the ladies so they can have a better view of the river Arno. This small gesture marks the beginning of Lucy's journey of self-discovery as she finds her passion and voice in a world that's still very much stuck in the past.

A delightful comedy of manners, A Room with a View is a study in contrasts. The differences between the more relaxed Italian approach to life, compared to the uptight and straitlaced English high society, reveal E.M. Forster's forward-thinking views on the class system and the role of women in the early 1900s.

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