“26 November 1914. Father said if I want to keep a diary I must begin it on New Year’s Day. He said no one starts a diary in November. But New Year’s Day is five weeks away and I do not want to wait. I don’t see why I should either. Why should diaries have to start on 1^st January. It is tidy, I admit, and I am a tidy person, but that is all.”
‘Diary of an Ordinary Woman’ by Margaret Forster
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Try one of these 1st paras & discover a new author:-
‘Affinity’ by Sarah Waters
‘A Month in the Country’ by JL Carr
‘Armadillo’ by William Boyd

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