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.
- ISBN10 0140176616
- ISBN13 9780140176612
- Publish Date 26 May 1994 (first published 25 March 1993)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 17 September 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 448
- Language English