First Lines

[Malcopool]

Which books istart with the following.

"The deportation order arrived one clear bright morning early in April.

"Early spring, Saturday, Salisbury market day, and, as it happened, Grand National Day too: they drove me from the overnight Police Station cell to the Magistrates' court."

After the big Share-Out there was a thousand pounds left for an Official History.

[Peter Pedant]

It's not one of Douglas Adams books

The one in Earth is atomised to make way for a hyperspace by pass

is it?