A Room With a View fic: "And Have Their Chance of Joy" by Penguin

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Hello, my name is Miss M. and I'll be reccing fic for E.M. Forster's novel A Room With a View this month. Though not an active fandom per se, there is a number of excellent stories based on this canon, and I hope to share some of them with you.

Fandom: A Room With a View
Pairing: Lucy Honeychurch/George Emerson
Word count: 1934
Author on LJ: penguin474 
Author website: Fics on Archive of Our Own

Why this must be read: The characterisation here is wonderful, and the writing is lovely, very true to the tone of the novel and its portrayal of the Lucy/George romance. The piece is romantic without being fluffy, not shying away from the fact that love often comes at a cost -- in this case, the disapproval Lucy faces after having made her choice.

 

Lucy was dressed in white as she had been on the day of their outing to Fiesole, and walking along the path to the Sacred Lake on this sunny autumn afternoon she felt that this was where everything converged. Everything in her life for the past six months had been pointing to this moment. The white dress; Cecil walking behind her on this same path; George, wet and naked, whooping in the face of glumness – and Lucy bowing across the rubbish that cumbers the world.

Walking here with George was entirely different. With Cecil she had always been aware of a faint discord, always been anxious about living up to expectations. She was not, after all, a Leonardo, and tended to say the wrong things. Honeychurch things. George listened where Cecil poked fun, and walked through the woods with ease and a natural presence that Cecil never found in any settings or circumstances, because he would only see things in relation to himself. George could look at the world with humility while quietly taking his place in it. His battles with the universe were behind him.

And Have Their Chance of Joy