Food in books: meringues and iced coffee from A Room with a View

Kate Young writes about devouring EM Forster’s classic novel as a teen and recalls her romantic wishes to live and love like its heroine, Lucy Honeychurch

By Kate Young for The Little Library Café, part of the Guardian Books Network

When he was introduced he understood why, for Miss Honeychurch, disjoined from her music stool, was only a young lady with a quantity of dark hair and a very pretty, pale, undeveloped face. She loved going to concerts, she loved stopping with her cousin, she loved iced coffee and meringues.

A Room with a View, EM Forster

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