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Sarah Crown

First things

Feeling Friday afternoon-ish? Allow me to provide you with a welcome diversion from the dregs of the working week: this list of the 100 best first lines of novels from Litline. Eminently browsable. Disappointed not to see the opening line of The Day of the Triffids on there ("When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere." - a personal favourite), but a thoroughly entertaining read, nonetheless. Enjoy!

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