Book Beginnings on Friday: True North

Book Beginnings on Friday is a meme originally hosted by Katy from A Few More Pages but now hosted by Gilion at Rose City Reader. Anyone can participate; just share the opening sentence of your current read, making sure that you include the title and author so others know what you're reading.

 True North: A Memoir by Jill Ker Conway

"Within hours of my arrival in September 1960, New York astonished and delighted me."

I'd say that's a pretty universal feeling about New York, but Jill in particular was greeted by a hurricane, which she'd never experienced before in Australia.