How did the opening passage of the book (first paragraph up to first chapter) lead you to anticipate the ending of the book?

Judy Blundell starts her book with a chapter that can be found nearly verbatim towards the end of the book, at the climax of the action. It was like she pulled a Romeo and Juliet; she told us right off the bat exactly what was going to happen like in the beginning sonnet of Romeo and Juliet, and instead of making us put down the book because we already know the ending, it makes us want to keep reading. We know what will happen, but we still want to know how it happens. Blundell sets her story up with the heroine waking up alongside her knockout mother in a hotel room. You get the feeling that they have been staying there for a long time and something changed. Evie mentions that "We never went to the hotel dining room now. They knew who we were; they'd seen our pictures in the paper. We knew they'd be saying, Look at them eating toast -- how can they be so heartless?" which suggests that going to the dining room used to be a common occurrence for this girl and her mother. "They" saw their pictures in the paper, which means something happened to them that would have called for publicity. The characterization of the mother-daughter pair as "heartless" suggests that it was them who committed the act that earned their publicity, not that they had something done to them. All of this-along with the title-helped form my opinion that some scandal was going to occur and Evie and her mother would be a part of it.