First Impressions

This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel about a pope written by a baron:

"In mind he was tired, worn out, by years of hope deferred, of loneliness, of unrewarded toil."

The winner receives a £25 Blackwell's voucher and
the closing date is September 11.

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 George Eliot's Middlemarch , was Anne Green of Glasgow University.

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