First Impressions

This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by a gothic novelist with a penchant for the macabre:

"For the most wild yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief."

The winner receives a £25 Blackwell's voucher and
the closing date is July 17.

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 correctly identified Iris Murdoch's The Sandcastle , is Michael Fogg of Ely, Cambridgeshire.

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