Asta's Book

Asta's Book is a 1993 novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, written under the name Barbara Vine.[1] It was published in the USA under the title Anna's Book.

Asta's Book
First edition (UK)
Author	Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell)
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Crime / Mystery novel
Publisher	Viking (UK) Harmony (US)
Publication date	March 25, 1993
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback) & Audiobook
Pages	448 (paperback)
ISBN	0-14-017661-6
OCLC	30735495
Preceded by	King Solomon's Carpet
Followed by	No Night Is Too Long

Plot

The story of Asta, a Danish immigrant in London in 1905, is told mainly in flashback through the discovery of her diary by her daughter.[2][3]

References

Shena Mackay (28 March 1993). "A cold fish in a shoal of red herrings: Asta's Book - Barbara Vine". The Independent. Retrieved 12 April 2011.
"Barbara Vine/Ruth Rendell". Books. Gradegate Limited: 30. 1990.
L. W. Sumner (1996). Welfare, happiness, and ethics. Clarendon Press. p. 96. ISBN 9780198244400.

Ruth Rendell
Inspector Wexford novels	From Doon with Death A New Lease of Death Wolf to the Slaughter The Best Man to Die A Guilty Thing Surprised No More Dying Then Murder Being Once Done Some Lie and Some Die Shake Hands Forever A Sleeping Life Put on By Cunning The Speaker of Mandarin An Unkindness of Ravens The Veiled One Kissing the Gunner's Daughter Simisola Road Rage Harm Done The Babes in the Wood End in Tears Not in the Flesh The Monster in the Box The Vault No Man's Nightingale
Stand-alone novels	To Fear a Painted Devil Vanity Dies Hard The Secret House of Death One Across, Two Down The Face of Trespass A Demon in My View A Judgement in Stone Make Death Love Me The Lake of Darkness Master of the Moor The Killing Doll The Tree of Hands Live Flesh Heartstones Talking to Strange Men The Bridesmaid Going Wrong The Crocodile Bird The Keys to the Street A Sight for Sore Eyes Adam and Eve and Pinch Me The Rottweiler Thirteen Steps Down The Thief The Water's Lovely Portobello Tigerlily's Orchids The Saint Zita Society The Girl Next Door Dark Corners
As Barbara Vine	A Dark-Adapted Eye A Fatal Inversion The House of Stairs Gallowglass King Solomon's Carpet Asta's Book No Night is Too Long The Brimstone Wedding The Chimney Sweeper's Boy Grasshopper The Blood Doctor The Minotaur The Birthday Present The Child's Child
Short story collections	The Fallen Curtain Means of Evil The Fever Tree The New Girlfriend The Copper Peacock Blood Lines Piranha to Scurfy A Spot of Folly
TV series	The Ruth Rendell Mysteries The Barbara Vine Mysteries

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