There is nothing like a first line to draw you into a book.
My favourite:
"Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person." Haven't we all had that feeling? And don't we want to know more? This is from Anne Tyler's
Back When We Were Grownups.
I also love Tolstoy's
Anna Karenina:
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
The joy of a good first line is that it pulls you into story - a bad first line, however, makes you ...
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