Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by LizB of Should Be Reading.
The rules are:
- Grab your current read.
- Open to a random page.
- Share 2 teaser sentences from somewhere on that page.
- Be careful not to include spoilers.
- Share the title and author, too, so that other Teaser Tuesday participants can add the book to their TBR lists if they like your teasers!
I'm impatiently trying to finish The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue, impatiently, because I love the book, but I also have so many other books I'd like to read waiting for their turn. :) My teaser is from page 53 of The Sealed Letter. The year is 1864. Emily "Fido" Faithfull, a pioneer women's rights activist and an owner of a printing press has agreed to let her friend Helen Codrington to meet a man who is not her husband in Fido's apartment. Helen has promised Fido to tell her admirer to "abandon all hope", instead this happens:
"Suddenly, across the back of Fido's eyes, the image of a kiss: Helen's coral mouth, the officer's straw moustache. She feels something like rage. She's about to fling the door open when she registers that the little sound's getting louder and faster. It's not a sound she's ever heard before, which is perhaps why it takes her several more seconds to admit what she's hearing. It's not a gasp of grief or muffled protest, no, it's mechanical: the frantic squeak of the sofa springs as they're forced up and down, up and down.What are you reading this week?
Fido can't go into the drawing-room, not now, but she finds she can't drag herself away either. She sinks to her knees on the landing, and her brown skirt spreads around her like a puddle."
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