Interesting characters, thrown together to interact in interesting ways. A thoughtful book, concerning itself more with class than with race. And above all, with beauty.

Time and again in this novel, the characters are overcome with the beauty of music, of art, of language, and, yes, of the human form.

I was enjoying the book, just reading along and minding my own business, when I suddenly slipped down a rabbit hole and found myself inside of [book: Howard's End]. Then I re-read the first couple of chapters and belatedly realized that that's where I'd been through the entire book. It was actually a bit distracting, because for the second half of the book I kept watching for [book: Howard's End] to resurface.

I have a quibble about the language. It seems as if she was trying for American, and didn't quite make it. So the book ended up as a British/American hybrid. Thus you have Howard searching out a bathroom in England, while in the States announcements come out over a tannoy.