First Lines Friday

First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?

• Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
• Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
• Finally… reveal the book!

Got it? Okay let’s go! Here is the quote…

“The trees were full of crows and the woods were full of madmen. The pit was full of bones and her hands were full of wires. “

Do you know this one?

It’s a modern fairy tale…

By a fairly well known author!

Have you guessed?

Yes? No?

Give up?

Here it is!