ABSTRACT
When I am next in a school (which is after my deadline for this book) I will read them these sentences. Each opens a novel. Perhaps the reader would like to see which of them s/he can identify. I have cut out a name if it is a give-away:
A When I was four months old, my mother died suddenly and my father was left to look after me all by himself. B When ___ _______ woke up on Monday morning, he found he was a girl. C Sophie couldn’t sleep. D It was raining hard, but the sky was cloudless. E If you went too near the edge of the chalk pit the ground would give way. F The boy left home at rst light, enough food and drink in his rucksack to last him the whole day. G ____ was dead, to begin with. H Butter ies live only short lives. I When my parents split up, they didn’t know what to do with me.
