and tune in tomorrow evening to see if you're right — and then, to see gif you agree with what I've found in those first 100 words.

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It’s England, but not as we know it. And I don't much like what they’ve done with the place.

Issue Two of First 100 Words looks at the opening of George Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’.

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tease the narrator?



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“Sometimes the more people speak, the less they actually say. What aren’t we being told here, and why not?”

Issue Eight of First 100 Words tackles a book that made me cry at the end. How well was I able to ‘cold read’ it? You’re the judge.

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I hear sirens, in both senses of the word …
I think he’s expecting a girl.
What he’s going to meet?
A WOMAN.

Issue Seven of First 100 Words? It’s highly uncomfortable territory all round: Angela Carter’s ‘The Bloody Chamber’.


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Number Six in the First 100 Words series ...

"It's not screaming 'meet the heroine' at me.
My main question?
How am I supposed to feel about this person?"

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First 100 Words: Close Reading every Friday.

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I feel like I’ve gone to the doctor to hear my test results, and they're sitting opposite me with an expression you only usually see undertakers wearing.

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‘This stinks of grief, and of being haunted by something we thought would last forever. But what? What has died?’

I got that feeling within the first 100 words of a novel.

Find out which one tomorrow evening.
First 100 Words: Close Reading every Friday.
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He's playing his cards remarkably close to his chest.

Can I be honest? I'm slightly irritated by it.

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The temperature’s dropped, storm clouds have suddenly covered the sun, and .. are those wolves I can hear in the background? We’ve entered classic Gothic territory, and this is going to be intense. How does du Maurier manage this in just 100 words?

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