Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0451405498, Paperback)

Mystery author, Ruth Rendell (writing as Barbara Vine) evokes the life of Anna, a young Danish immigrant in turn-of-the-century London, as she confides her rebellious thoughts to her diary. Years later Anna's granddaughter stumbles upon missing portions of the diary that may provide the answer to an unsolved murder: the stabbing of a woman and the disappearance of her daughter. Ricocheting between diary passages and Anne's search into the lives of her mother and grandmother, the reader learns the truth about the women in Anne's past. Actress Wanda McCaddon reads this engrossing story-within-a-story. 2 cassettes.