“It was the day my grandmother exploded.” A fabulous first line, from The Crow Road by Iain Banks. Doubly good for me since a friend asked me for a recommendat

“It was the day my grandmother exploded.” A fabulous first line, from The Crow Road by Iain Banks. Doubly good for me since a friend asked me for a recommendation for an interesting read, and I later discovered that he had sent it, unread, to his grandmother for her birthday.