First Impressions

This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work whose dystopian vision has enthralled generations of teenage readers: "A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories."

The winner receives a £25 Blackwell's book voucher and
the closing date is April 25 .

Entries should be sent to
First Impressions
The THES
Admiral House, 66-68 East Smithfield
London E1W 1BX

faxed to 020-7782 3300
or emailed to theschat@thes.co.uk

The winner of last week's competition, who correctly identified Q. D. Leavis's Fiction and the Reading Public , is Victor Peach from Widecombe-in-the-Moor.