First Line of the Book You're Reading

[lunababymoonchild]

Miriam thumped her Gladstone bag down on to the doorstep.

 

 

Interim: Pilgrimage, Volume 5, Dorothy M. Richardson. Kindle Edition. 

[Lau_Lou]

My part in the affair started on September 18th, when my chief sent for me and told me he was transferring me to Saxmere on the East Coast. 

The Breakthrough by Daphne Du Murier

 

 

 

When I think of my wife, I always think of her head. 

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

 

 

 

Father Brian Flynn the curate in St Augustine's Rossmore, hated the feast day of St Ann with a passion that was unusual for a Catholic priest. 

Whitethorn Woods by Maeve Binchy

 

 

 

 

 

[Lau_Lou]

February 1983

 

He would never have believed it if you'd told him a year ago. That he'd be standing in an empty shop with a baby in a pram, seriously considering putting in an offer.

How To Find Love In  A Bookshop by Veronica Henry

 

"What are you doing here, child? This is no place for a little lass like you. Come on, tell me your name." Emerald Star by Jacqueline Wilson

 

February 2020

 

My husband doesn't recognise my face. I feel him staring at me as I drive, and wonder what he sees. Nobody else looks familiar to him either, but it is still strange to think that the man I married wouldn't be able to pick me out in a police line-up.

Rock, Paper, Scissors by Alice Feeney

[poppy]

 

“I adore iced fancies but they have one drawback,” proclaimed Mrs Churchill to her assistant, Miss Pemberley, as they sat in a corner of the tea rooms."

 

The Poisoned Peer (Churchill and Pemberley Series Book 6) by Emily Organ 

 

[poppy]

“And what is your resolution to be, Lucia?” asked Georgie, looking up from his petit point.

 

A Tilling New Year by Hugh Ashton

 

 

[Vilandra]

“The forest had become a labyrinth of snow and ice.”

 

- A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas