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If your main character starts off somewhat unlikable, then, in the early pages of your story, they should save a cat (yes, like from a tree or a burning building or a shelter), or do something comparable that immediately makes the reader
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“Even without Lady Hardcastle’s scientific education I knew that being suspended by the neck on a length of sturdy rope wasn’t conducive to long life.”
― A Quiet Life in the Country
― A Quiet Life in the Country
“larger than I had expected.’ The driver of the faintly dilapidated cart handed me Lady Hardcastle’s Gladstone while she fished in her purse for her customarily generous tip. With an astonished ‘Thank you, m’lady’, he flicked his whip. The cart clattered off, back towards”
― A Quiet Life in the Country
― A Quiet Life in the Country
“wondered if the Croquet Association might be persuaded to add ‘mischievous large dogs’ to its list of approved equipment.”
― Death Around the Bend
― Death Around the Bend
“Stupid murderers and their stupid murders.”
― In the Market for Murder
― In the Market for Murder
“She pays the bills without looking at them. I overheard her talking to one of her friends once. “If one has to worry about the bills,” she says, “one can’t afford them anyway.” So if that’s the way she sees it, I makes sure to slip a little treat in for us now and again.”
― A Quiet Life in the Country
― A Quiet Life in the Country
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