First Lines Fridays (#FirstLinesFriday) 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?
This is how it works,
– 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
Happy Friday!
I hope you all had a good week and are all staying at home and staying safe.
What are your bookish plans for this weekend?
Another episode of “First Lines Friday” is here so let’s see what we have in store.
My “First Lines” pick for this week is…
“My name’s Tommy Hanson, and I’m an alcoholic”
Synopsis:
The war on drugs has been lost but for want of the courage to face the fact that the whole world is rapidly becoming one vast criminal network. From pop stars and princes to crack whores and street kids. From the Groucho Club toilets to the poppy fields of Afghanistan, we are all partners in crime.
HIGH SOCIETY is a story or rather a collection of interconnected stories that takes the reader on a hilarious, heart breaking and terrifying journey through the kaleidoscope world that the law has created and from which the law offers no protection.
The Author:
Ben Elton was born on 3 May 1959, in Catford, South London. The youngest of four, he went to Godalming Grammar school, joined amateur dramatic societies and wrote his first play at 15. He wanted to be a stagehand at the local theatre, but instead did A-Level Theatre Studies and studied drama at Manchester University in 1977.
His career as both performer and writer encompasses some of the most memorable and incisive comedy of the past twenty years. His ground breaking work as a TV stand-up comedian set the (high) standard of what was to follow. He has received accolades for his hit TV sit-coms, The Young Ones, Blackadder and The Thin Blue Line.
More recently he has had successes with three hit West End musicals, including the global phenomenon We Will Rock You. He has written three plays for the London stage, including the multi-award-winning Popcorn. Ben’s international bestselling novels include Stark, Inconceivable, Dead Famous and High Society. He won the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger Award for the novel Popcorn.
Elton lives in Perth with his Aussie wife Sophie and three children.
Published: 2003 by Black Swan
Pages: 380
Buy @ www.amazon.com/highsociety
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