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First Line Friday is a weekly feature and simple to do - grab the book nearest you and post the first line. Carrie hosts this over on her blog Reading is my Superpower.
William Shakespeare is popularly supposed to have been born on 23 April 1564, or St. George's Day.
Happy Reading!
Sarah
"In 1957, in the quiet village of Langho, Lancashire, three young sisters were found dead in bed. Sandra, 10, Yvonne, 9, and Moira, 5, had been dressed in their pyjamas and laid on the mattress beneath a carefully arranged canopy of sheets and blankets."
ReplyDeleteAttack Warning Red! - How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War by Julie McDowall.
What happened?! That's awful.
DeleteI haven't started it yet - that'll be tomorrow.... But I did skim ahead a bit knowing you'd ask... I *think* that their parents killed them (using the house gas supply) because they thought a nuclear war was imminent and didn't want them to suffer through it.
DeleteGiven the title, that is what I assumed. Yikes, poor babies.
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