A novel following Rickie Elliot, a lame and sensitive young man who leaves Cambridge with dreams of becoming a writer. Shaped by his memories of friendship and idealism, he makes choices about marriage, work and family that gradually pull him away from what he values. The story moves between university, suburban England and the Wiltshire countryside. Among Forster's most personal and unusual books, it blends comedy with painful insight into self-deception, and it is partly autobiographical.
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The cow is there.