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Barbara Vine
Asta's Book

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 keeps loneliness and isolation at bay by writing a diary. These diaries, published over 70 years later, reveal themselves to be more than a mere journal. For they seem to hold the 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.

Author: Barbara Vine
Published: 1993
Page Count: 400

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