An attractive cover may entice you to pick up a novel in a bookshop, and a sparkling blurb may encourage you to ‘look inside’ it on-line, but it's the first sentence of a book that captures your imagination, draws you into the story and make you want to read it, and it's first lines you remember. The first lines of some books have become as famous as the books themselves. Here are fifteen well-known books' opening lines – see how many you recognise! ‘It is a truth universally