Asta's Book - Softcover

Vine, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140176616 ISBN 13: 9780140176612

Publisher: Penguin, 1994

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

'A classic double-detective story by crime master Barbara Vine. For a good, absorbing, well-told story, you could hardly better the unveiling of Asta's secret'.' (The Sunday Times)

'A dazzling domestic thriller.' (The Guardian)

'Engrossing ... a mixture of biography, true crime and romance people with vivid minor players and red with herrings.' (The Independent on Sunday)

Book Description:

A series of diaries, published over 70 years later, reveal themselves to be more than a mere journal ... an enthralling double-detective thriller by crime master Barbara Vine.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0140176616
• ISBN 13: 9780140176612
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448