Asta's Book
by:
Barbara Vine (author)
This work is set in 1905. Asta and her husband Rasmus have come to east London from Denmark with their two sons. With Rasmus constantly away on business, Asta keeps loneliness and isolation at bay by writing her diary. These diaries, published over seventy years later, reveal themselves to be...
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This work is set in 1905. Asta and her husband Rasmus have come to east London from Denmark with their two sons. With Rasmus constantly away on business, Asta keeps loneliness and isolation at bay by writing her diary. These diaries, published over seventy years later, reveal themselves to be more than a mere journal, for they seem to hold the key to an unsolved murder, to the quest for a missing child and to the enigma surrounding Asta's daughter, Swanny. It falls to Asta's granddaughter Ann to unearth the buried secrets of nearly a century before.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140176612 (0140176616)
ASIN: 0140176616
Publish date: 1994-01
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
Whoa, I so did not see that coming. The first Vine book I read was The Blood Doctor and while I could figure out where the book was going, it was still compelling.This book is great. You think you have it figured out, then you're wrong. Then you think "aha", but still no. My only quibble is that...
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