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{{short description|1993 novel by Barbara Vine}}
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{{Infobox book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books -->
| name         = Asta's Book
| title_orig   =
| translator   =
| image        = File:AstasBook.jpg
| caption      = First edition (UK)
| author       = Barbara Vine ([[Ruth Rendell]])
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| country      = United Kingdom
| language     = English
| series       =
| genre        = [[Crime novel|Crime]] / [[Mystery novel]]
| publisher    = [[Viking Press|Viking]] (UK)<br />[[Harmony Books|Harmony]] (US)
| release_date = March 25, 1993
| media_type   = Print ([[Hardcover|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 (novel)|No Night Is Too Long]]
}}
'''''Asta's Book''''' is a 1993 novel by British writer [[Ruth Rendell]], written under the name Barbara Vine.<ref name="The Independent - 28Mar1993 - Shena Mackay - A cold fish in a shoal of red herrings">{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/book-review--a-cold-fish-in-a-shoal-of-red-herrings-astas-book--barbara-vine-viking-pounds-1599-1500402.html|title=A cold fish in a shoal of red herrings: Asta's Book - Barbara Vine|last=Shena Mackay|author-link=Shena Mackay|date=28 March 1993|work=[[The Independent]]|accessdate=12 April 2011}}</ref> It was published in the USA under the title ''Anna's Book''.
==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.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Barbara Vine/Ruth Rendell|journal=Books|publisher=Gradegate Limited|year=1990|page=30}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=L. W. Sumner|title=Welfare, happiness, and ethics|publisher=Clarendon Press|year=1996|ISBN=9780198244400|page=96}}</ref>
==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{The Barbara Vine Novels}}
[[Category:1993 British novels]]
[[Category:Novels by Ruth Rendell]]
[[Category:Works published under a pseudonym]]
[[Category:Fiction set in 1905]]
[[Category:Viking Press books]]
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