A guess-the-book meme.

A meme, just to pass the time:

List the first sentences of your five favourite books so that people can guess the books they come from. After three days, post the answers.

I'm terrible at coming up with definitive top tens/fives/threes of anything, but here (in a very loose and not-to-be-taken-too-seriously order) are the first sentences of five of my favourites:

1) Watch your step.

2) Dear Franklin, I'm unsure why one trifling incident this afternoon has moved me to write to you.
(The name should tip off anyone who's read that book.)

3) They were young, educated and both virgins on this, their wedding night, and they lived in a time when a conversation about sexual difficulties was plainly impossible.
(And this one's a minor blurb - again a good memory-nudger.)

4) There once was a cobbler called Saunders who died for eleven days.

5) I came to London to write and found myself practising magic instead.

Any guesses, before Wednesday comes?