Asta's Book
 First edition (UK) | |
| Author | Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell) |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Crime / Mystery novel |
| Publisher |
Viking (UK) Harmony (US) |
Publication date | March 25, 1993 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) & Audiobook |
| Pages | 448 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 0-14-017661-6 |
| OCLC | 30735495 |
| Preceded by | King Solomon's Carpet |
| Followed by | No Night is Too Long |
Asta's Book is a 1993 novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, written under the name Barbara Vine.[1] It was published in the USA under the title Anna's Book.
Plot summary
This is set in the 1990s, with flashbacks to 1905 via Asta's diary. 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.
References
- ↑ Shena Mackay (28 March 1993). "A cold fish in a shoal of red herrings: Asta's Book - Barbara Vine:". The Independent. Retrieved 12 April 2011.
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