First Line Fridays | 12 Dec 2025

Dear Bookbugs,

 

 

 

 

 

I am back with another First Line Fridays post. This one’s special and you will soon find out why.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First Line Fridays is a weekly book meme hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?

Here’s how it works!

• Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
• Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
• Finally… reveal the book!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here we go,

 

 

 

 

 

 

First Lines :

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them. It’s for their own good. I mean, take my own parents. If they knew the unvarnished truth about my finances/love-life/plumbing/council tax, they’d have instant heart attacks and the doctor would say, ‘Did anyone give them a terrible shock?’ and it would all be my fault.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is the first lines from one of the very first women’s fiction/ chic-lit novels I’ve read. Any guesses?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Another hint, it’s from one of my all time favorite authors.

 

 

 

 

 

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I hope you got it!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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And the book is 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I picked this book to express my gratitude to the beloved author, Sophie Kinsella. Twenties Girl is my first ever Sophie Kinsella experience. I read this book back in 2012, I believe. I was just stepping out into the world thousands of kilometers away from my home. I was working, figuring out my place in the world while sharing a room with four other people. I didn’t know who I was or, rather, who I was supposed to be. And the world was large and wide open in front of me. It was intimidating and overwhelming. And then I met Sadie through Sophie’s words. I bought a copy of the book from some roadside vendor because I wanted to pick up books once again. I don’t even own that copy anymore. But the memory is still fresh.

 

 

Lara, the protagonist in the story, is a fumbling woman in her twenties, and she starts seeing her aunt Saide’s ghost, and they don’t even know each other well before. Sadie – a woman who doesn’t belong in this world. A woman who is from a different time, and yet she is so unapologetically herself. Sadie is a free spirit who never gave a thought about what other people thought of her. While Twenties Girl didn’t exactly change my life, the truth is like any other good book, it left me a different person than I was before. I found the confidence to be unapologetically myself. To feel things the way only I would and to see the world the way only I would and stop worrying about fitting in. And that’s how my journey began. I found more of Sophie’s books with the witty heroines and their charming love stories. I saw them materialised on the silver screen.  And I fell in love with books all over again as an adult.

 

 

So thank you, Sophie, for igniting that spark in me and for bringing Sadie, Lara, Rebecca Bloomwood and other memorable heroines who didn’t shy away from being themselves. You will be missed, but your work will live on forever. The dragonfly necklace, the desperately important scarf and even the Russian doll will forever be etched in our hearts, making you immortal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Reading Everyone!!!

 

 

 

 

 

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