The Friday 56 (With Book Beginnings): Belgravia by Julian Fellowes

Welcome to The Friday 56, a weekly meme hosted by Freda's Voice.

These are the rules:

1. Grab a book, any book.

2. Turn to page 56, or 56% on your eReader.
3. Find any sentence (or a few, just don't spoil it) that grabs you.
4. Post it.
5. Add the URL to your post in the link on Freda's most recent Friday 56 post.

I'm also taking part in Book Beginnings, a weekly meme hosted by Rose City Reader.  The rules are pretty simple - you share the first sentence or so and your initial thoughts, impressions, or whatever else it inspires.  Don't forget to link up your post's url with Rose City Reader.

This week I'm spotlighting one of my current reads, Belgravia by Julian Fellowes.  I've just started in on it and I'm hoping that it will be able to help me with my Downton Abbey withdrawal!

Beginning:

The past, as we have been told so many times, is a foreign country where things are done differently.  This may be true - indeed it patently is true when it comes to morals or customs, the role of women, aristocratic government, and a million other elements of our daily lives.  But there are similarities, too.

56:

Anne often wondered if she had only learned to love the boy sooner, would she have tried to change the plan and insisted on bringing him up herself.