Can you guess the book from its opening line..?
Can you guess the book from its opening line..?
Find out if you're the ultimate bookworm...
Find out if you're the ultimate bookworm...
FIRST UP, SOME OF THE BOOKS YOU'LL HAVE SEEN ON RECENT BESTSELLER LISTS…
‘She’s buried beneath a silver birch tree, down towards the old train tracks, her grave marked with a cairn.’
‘This time she was going to die, of that she was certain.’
‘Late one July evening in 1994, Red and Abby Whitshank had a phone call from their son Denny.’
‘There are 158 footsteps between the bus stop and home, but it can stretch to 180 if you aren’t in a hurry, like maybe if you’re wearing platform shoes.’
‘Since Atlanta, she had looked out the dining-car window with a delight almost physical.’
‘With her straw sun hat in one hand, Gwen leant against the salty railings and glanced down again.’
‘“You know there was an old woman mugged around here?” Carla says, letting her long, black ponytail snake over one shoulder.’
‘When I think of my wife, I always think of the back of her head.’
AND NOW FOR SOME REAL CLASSICS…
'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.’
‘It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.’
‘Mother died today. Or maybe, yesterday; I can't be sure.’
‘All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.’
‘The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.’
‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…’
‘In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.’
‘It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.’