As part of the book show, we had a 'first lines' quiz, with Cross Country Checkup T shirts and baseball caps as prizes. We asked you to identify the book and author from five first lines. The quiz is now done - the prizes have been sent. In fact, we had so many entries, we sent out extra prizes. Thanks to all who participate in the show and the quiz.
Time is a blind guide.
Boy-boy I surfaced into the miry streets of the drowned city. My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and married and where I was born. Instead they returned to Ireland when I was four with my brother Malaky three, the twins Oliver and Eugene barely one and my sister Margaret dead and gone. Once there was a boy called Jacob Two-Two. He was two plus two plus two plus two years old.