“When the phone ran I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along to an FM broadcast of the overture of Rossini’s ‘The Thieving Magpie,’ which has to be the perfect music for cooking pasta.”
‘The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle’ by Haruki Murakami 
Amazon

Try one of these 1st paras & discover a new author:-
‘A Change of Climate’ by Hilary Mantel
‘The Pelican Brief’ by John Grisham
‘Sophie’s World’ by Jostein Gaarder

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