On chance

   

     "There was a fractional pause while the ambiguous world of chance, which is a mingle of genes and character and circumstance and sometimes a rare flash of good luck, hovered about them, offering and withdrawing and offering again evanescent possibilities, alluring, perilous, disturbing, awaiting their cue to become a living element in their tangled history."

    Salley Vickers, The Librarian.

 

Pictured is the endpaper from the handsome hardback edition.