First impressions

This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from two brothers who created a suburban English archetype:

"We settle down in our new home, and I resolve to keep a diary."

The winner receives a £20 book token and the closing date is July 14.

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 Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian , is Nicolas Walter of London.