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Silly game- anyone up for it?

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gracesmum Fri 27-Sept-13 15:04:22

Great minds think alike!!
Pat Barker - The Eye in The Door.

"The Mole had been working very hard all morning, spring-cleaning his little home."

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gracesmum Fri 27-Sept-13 15:01:59

Catch 22?

"The Mole had been working very hard all morning, spring-cleaning his little home."

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Ariadne Fri 27-Sept-13 14:59:43

Catch 22 Joseph Heller

"In formal beds beside the Serpentine,early tulips stood in tight lipped rows."

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granfromafar Fri 27-Sept-13 12:45:37

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Attwood.

'It was love at first sight'

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vampirequeen Fri 27-Sept-13 12:07:52

Atonement by Ian McEwan


We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.

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Seren Fri 27-Sept-13 12:01:40

Next was
1984 George Orwell

The play for which Briony had designed the posters, programmes and tickets...

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Seren Fri 27-Sept-13 11:59:18

Oops! 2 of us answered. 'In the latter days... Will try again.

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Seren Fri 27-Sept-13 11:56:54

Barchester Towers Anthony Trollope

The play for which Briony had designed the posters,programmes and tickets...

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gracesmum Fri 27-Sept-13 11:54:36

That was quite hard, feetle I had to go and check - but one of my favourites - Barchester Towers?

How about an easy one?
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

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feetlebaum Fri 27-Sept-13 10:58:04

Cold Comfort Farm

In the latter days of July in the year 185-, a most important question was for ten days hourly asked...

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annodomini Fri 27-Sept-13 10:05:53

Answer: Persuasion Jane Austen

The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged.

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gracesmum Fri 27-Sept-13 09:57:06

OK it's not rocket science but hope this runs:
You post the opening line of a book, somebody guesses it and they then post another opening of another book, and so on. Yes?

Sir Walter Elliot of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage.

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