Last week I was bored and looking for something to read over lunch, anything but a newspaper. I nipped into a charity shop and picked a book at random off the shelf. It was priced at fifty pence.
It had a plain cover with no blurb, so I flicked it open to read the first few paragraphs to see if anything caught my eye.
"Her face was as immobile as the Gorgon's victims, her face as unreadable as the Architect's Registration Amendment Act of 1969."
I bought it immediately.
That's got to be the most beautiful use of the Architect's Registration Amendment Act of 1969 in literature I've ever read. Tell us more! Who is the author? We must celebrate his/her works!
outstanding
clearly an undiscovered masterpiece: hang on to it for a couple of years and you may find it doubles in value
Is that Fly Fishing by J R Hartley?