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…

“I can picture it clearly: A light dusting of snow had settled on the cobblestones of a small London street in a respectable middle-class neighborhood not far from Kensington Gardens.”

Do you know this one?

It is a retelling of a well known children’s book

It is being told from a totally new perspective

Have you guessed?

Yes? No?

Give up?

Here it is!