First Impressions

This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a sardonic observer of Mayfair folk:

"It was clearly going to be a bad crossing."

The winner receives a £20 book token and the closing date is June 23.

Entries should be sent to
First Impressions
The THES
Admiral House, 66-68 East Smithfield
London E1 9XY

faxed to 0171-782 3300
or emailed to theschat@thes.co.uk

The winner of last week's competition, who identified Rachel Carson's Silent Spring , is Bernard Savage of Croydon.