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  • Published: 27 May 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141042251
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 448

Asta's Book



It is 1905. Asta and her husband Rasmus have come to East London from Denmark with their two little boys. With Rasmus constantly away on business, Asta keep loneliness and isolation at bay by writing a diary. These diaries, published over seventy years later, reveal themselves to be more than a mere journal. For they seem to hold they key to an unsolved murder and to the mystery of a missing child. It falls to Asta's granddaughter Ann to unearth the buried secrets of nearly a century before.

  • Published: 27 May 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141042251
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 448

About the author

Barbara Vine

Barbara Vine is the pen-name of Ruth Rendell. Viking have published her twelve previous novels, including A Dark Adapted Eye, which won the Crime Writer's association Gold Dagger Award, and more recently Grasshopper, The Blood Doctor and The Minotaur. Ruth Rendell sits in the house of Lords as a Labour peer. She lives in Maida Vale, London.

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Praise for Asta's Book

Simply put, Vine is one of the greatest writers ever

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