Book Beginning – THE MIRACLE INSPECTOR by Helen Smith
The Miracle Inspector Synopsis
A darkly comic dystopian novel set in the near future. England has been partitioned and London is an oppressive place where poetry has been forced underground, theatres and schools are shut, and women are not allowed to work outside the home. A young couple, Lucas and Angela, try to escape from London – with disastrous consequences. (Amazon)
The Book Beginning is:
Lucas was dressed smartly, ready for work. He sat at the kitchen table and buttered his toast, and cracked at the top of the boiled egg his wife had made him for breakfast. Angela stood nearby, scrubbing at a small spot on the working surface. Layers of regret hung between them like unfashionable wallpaper. It made the place seem ugly.
I have only just started reading this novel but I am entranced by the originality of Smith’s writing and the dystopian future that is unfolding…
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I like that beginning…you get a real sense of the setting and the characters.
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I love this beginning. It really sets a mood. I especially like “Layers of regret hung between them like unfashionable wallpaper.” What an image!
My Book Beginning is from TANGLED ASHES.
Sounds like an above average start book for a genre that has mushroomed recently making it hard to find the good stuff amongst the dross! Thanks for pointing this one out to me