“The Little Paris Bookshop” a novel by Nina George (post 1): Who said or thought the novel’s first line, wrote it in italics, and what did they mean by it?

“How on earth could I have let them talk me into it?” (1, p. 1, line 1).

1. Nina George. The Little Paris Bookshop, Trans. Simon Pare, New York, Ballantine Books, 2015.