![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But more on that later.Omotoso's opening line in The Woman Next Door - "The habit of walking was something Hortensia took up after Peter fell ill" - is an intriguing, although slightly depressing one (mortality is not the most fun of subjects, is it?). If there's one thing Mohale Mashigo's debut novel The Yearning has in common with Yewande Omotoso's latest, it's a great opener."My mother died seven times before she gave birth to me," declares Marubini, the protagonist in The Yearning.This sets the scene for a magical - although a little bit too short - story about a young woman battling her past and its reappearance in her present, distant life. It not only sets the scene, however briefly, but it also piques the reader's interest - or turns us off. ![]() The opening line of a book is almost as important as a film's opening scene. ![]()
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