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They say that the first line of a piece of writing, is always the most difficult to set down on paper. It seems to me, that it may also be the most definitive, as I find it often sets the scene in my mind, even before I have turned the first page. Here are some more ‘first lines’, which have done just that for me …
‘Wycliffe And The Pea Green Boat’ – By W.J. Burley
1953
“On the morning of Wednesday 24th June, Morley Tremain lay, between sleeping and waking, vaguely aware of familiar sounds from the shop below and from the street. Every now and then came the jangling of the shop door-bell, a sound which had been part of the background of his life for as long as he could remember.”
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