Silly game- anyone up for it?

Answer: Persuasion Jane Austen

The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged.

Cold Comfort Farm

In the latter days of July in the year 185-, a most important question was for ten days hourly asked...

That was quite hard, feetle I had to go and check - but one of my favourites - Barchester Towers?

How about an easy one?
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

Barchester Towers Anthony Trollope

The play for which Briony had designed the posters,programmes and tickets...

Oops! 2 of us answered. 'In the latter days... Will try again.

Next was
1984 George Orwell

The play for which Briony had designed the posters, programmes and tickets...

Atonement by Ian McEwan


We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Attwood.

'It was love at first sight'

Catch 22 Joseph Heller

"In formal beds beside the Serpentine,early tulips stood in tight lipped rows."

Catch 22?

"The Mole had been working very hard all morning, spring-cleaning his little home."

Great minds think alike!!
Pat Barker - The Eye in The Door.

"The Mole had been working very hard all morning, spring-cleaning his little home."

The Wind in the Willows....Kenneth Grahame

I scowl with frustration at myself in the mirror.

Its hard!
I got Catch 22 and 1984.
What a literary lot you are.

Couldn't do Vampire's so I cheated and Googled. The little GREY cells weren't working!

All happy families resemble one another, every unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion.

Anna Karenina.

- They order, said I, this matter better in France -

No -one said anything about not using Google!

Answer = Ann Karenina

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times........

Oops! I meant Anna Karenina of course!

A Tale of two Cities

"That's torn it!"

.....they order, said I, this matter better in France

Answer....

A sentimental journey through France an Italy (author) Laurence Sterne.

Can't get the answer to "That's torn it".... but feel I should know it!!

My first line.....

The stooping figure of my mother, waist deep in the grass?????????????????

Sounds like Laurie Lee

Help, grumppa!! Too hard for me! I feel it should be Tom Brown's Schooldays or an Enid Blyton but honestly puzzled!!

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning....Laurie Lee

Deckard and his wife own an electric sheep which they keep on the roof of their ...

Blade Runner. " The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas,a lonesome area that other Kansans call "out there."

Oh, I thought that might be a Jane Smiley book but it isn't [won't say what it is cause I googled it]. Now wishing I'd watched Blade Runner properly last night .