Asta's Book

Asta's Book

infobox Book |
name = Asta's Book
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image_caption =
author = Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell)
cover_artist =
country = United Kingdom
language = English
series =
genre = Crime / Mystery novel
publisher = Viking
release_date = March 25 1993
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback) & Audiobook
pages = 448 (paperback)
isbn = ISBN 0140176616
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. It was published in the USA under the title "Anna's Book".

Plot summary

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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