The very first sentence
of " Two hanged women" by Henry Handel Richardson

"Hand in hand the youthful lovers sauntered along the esplanade."


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July 

The very first sentence
of " Not talking" by Mike Bartlett

"James : I remember as a boy, I used to speak to everyone and anyone, incessantly. I found talking easy and I remember looking with curiosity at those other kind of people who were shy, or tongue-tied, and wondering  what that must be like. To find speaking difficult."


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July

The very first sentence
of "The red house" by Mark Haddon

"Cooling towers and sewage farms. Finstock, Charlbury, Ascott-under-Wychwood. Seventy miles per hour, the train zips the fields."


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July

The very first sentence
of " The man without a temperament" by Katherine Mansfield

"He stood at the hall door turning the ring, turning the heavy signet ring upon his little finger  while his glance travelled cooly, deliberately, over the round tables and basket chairs scattered about the glassed-in veranda."



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 July

The very first sentence
of "Solid objects" by Virginia Woolf

"The only thing that moved upon the vast semi-circle of the beach was one small black spot."


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July

People from here and there

The very first sentence
of "Amy Winehouse. The biography" by Chas Newkey-Burden

"Born to be wild ?
It was once said of Amy Winehouse, 'She often strikes as a personality born slightly out of time'."


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July

People from there

 Amy Winehouse

The very first sentence

of " The Hatton Garden Mystery" by Francis Marlowe

"It was half past ten precisely on a splendid October night when Philip Granger stepped out of a taxi-cab which had just drawn up outside the house in Oakley Square, London, N.W., in which he had lodged for the preceding six months."

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July

People from here and there

The very first sentence
of " Eagle Crag" by Julia A.Mathews

"He certainly ought to be here by this time," said Mary Churchill, taking out her watch and looking at it, as she walked slowly down the road towards the gate-way.


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July

The very first sentence 

of " A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce

"Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo..."

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 July

People from here and there

The very first sentence

of "Here we are" by Dorothy Parker

"The young man in the new blue suit finished arranging the glistening luggage in tight corners of the Pullman compartment."

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July

People from here and there

The very first sentence
of "Decider" by Dick Francis

"OK, so here I am, Lee Morris, opening doors and windows to gusts of life and early death"


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July

The very first sentence
of "Midsummer Night Madness" by Sean O'Faolain

"For a second I looked back into the city, down through the  smoke at the clustered chimney-pots and roofs on whose purples and greens and blues the summer light was falling as gently as dust, falling too on the thousand tiny beacons winking and blinking beneath me to their starry counterparts above."


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July

The very first sentence
of "Let them call it jazz" by Jean Rhys

"One bright Sunday morning in July I have trouble with my Notting Hill landlord because he ask for a month's rent in advance."



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July

People from here and there

In the subway, Paris

The very first sentence
of " Coffin Underground" by Gwendoline Butler

" The house stood by the church and by the church was the churchyard which the house had done its share to fill"


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July

The very first sentence
of "The eye" by Vladimir Nabokov

"I met that woman, that Matilda, during my first autumn of émigré existence in Berlin, in the early twenties of two spans of time, this century and my foul life"


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July

People from here and there

Knokke-le-Zout

The very first sentence
of " The chronicles of Narnia. The lion, the witch and the wardrobe" by C.S Lewis

" Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. This story is about something that happened to them when they were sent away from London during the war because of the air-raids."



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July

The very first sentence
of "Post-mortem" by Patricia Cornwell

"It was raining in Richmond on Friday, June 6. The relentless downpour, which began at dawn, beat the lilies to naked stalks, and blacktop and sidewalks were littered with leaves"


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 July

The very first sentence
of "The pianist" by Wladyslaw Szpilman

"The hour of the Children and the Man.
I began my war-time career as a pianist in the Café Nowoczesna, which was in Nowolipki Street in the very heart of the Warsaw ghetto."

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July

People from here and there

In Gare de Lyon, Paris

The very first sentence
of "Man and boy" by Tony Parsons

"Some situations to avoid when preparing for your all-important, finally-I-am-fully-grown thirthieth birthday."


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July

The very first sentence
of "For the sake of Elena" by Elizabeth George

"Elena Weaver awakened when the second light went on in her bed-sitting room"


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July 

The very first sentence
of "Five quarters of the orange" by Joanne Harris

"When my mother died she left the farm to my brother,Cassis, the fortune in the wine cellar to my sister, Reine-Claude, and to me, the youngest, her album and a two-litre jar containing a single black Périgord truffle, large as a tennis ball and suspended in sunflower oil, which, when uncorked, still releases the rich dank perfume of the forest floor"

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July