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Bezig met laden... Anna's Book (origineel 1993; editie 1994)door Ruth Rendell (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkAsta's boek door Barbara Vine (1993)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A rather long and drawn-out tale of two generations of women trying to solve a question of identity. I usually get quite engaged in Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine's stories, but she let this one ramble, ignored an obvious avenue of investigation, and included too many false leads for my taste. I did want to know who the killer was, and whether Swanny was adopted or not, but it just took too long to get there. A fair bit of backstory and repetitious explication could have been cut without hurting a thing. "Suspenseful" is not an adjective I'd use for this one.
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An "obsessively readable" mystery from the New York Times-bestselling author of Dark Corners about a century-old diary that holds clues to a murder (The Sunday Telegraph). Asta Westerby is lonely. In 1905, shortly after coming to East London from Denmark with her husband and their two little boys, she feels like a stranger in a strange land. And it doesn't help that her husband is constantly away on business. Fortunately, she finds solace in her diary--and she continues to do so until 1967. Decades later, her granddaughter, Ann, finds the journal, and it becomes a literary sensation, offering an intimate view of Edwardian life. But it also appears to hold the key to an unsolved murder and the disappearance of a child. A modern masterpiece by the Edgar Award-winning author of the Inspector Wexford Mysteries, and an excellent choice for readers of P. D. James, Ian Rankin, or Scott Turow, Asta's Book is at once a crime story, a historical novel, and a psychological portrait told through the diary itself and through Ann, who is bent on unlocking the journal's excised mystery. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)823.914Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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I did read/listen to the magnificently performed audiobook during a trip to Denver for a funeral so like it was kind of a lot. Still was a solid Rendell either way though, just not my favorite one. ( )