Title: Asta's book
First published: 1994
Description: 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.
Subjects: Danes, Fiction, Family secrets, Danois, Romans, nouvelles, Secrets de famille, Diaries, Missing children, Detective and mystery stories, New York Times reviewed, Mystery, Trials (Murder), Mothers and daughters, Women, Large type books, Roman policier, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, sagas, England, fiction, London (england), fiction, Mothers and daughters, fiction
Places: London (England), London