PublishedText Publishing, March 2020 |
ISBN9781922268235 |
FormatSoftcover, 320 pages |
Dimensions19.6cm × 12.9cm × 2cm |
From the award-winning and bestselling author of Addition and Nine Days, The Fragments is a superbly crafted and captivating page turning mystery about a lost book and a secret love, now available in a smaller, competitively priced edition.
nga Karlson died in a fire in New York in the 1930s, leaving behind three things- a phenomenally successful first novel, the scorched fragments of a second book-and a literary mystery that has captivated generations of readers.
Nearly fifty years later, Brisbane bookseller Caddie Walker is waiting in line to see a Karlson exhibition featuring the famous fragments when she meets a charismatic older woman. The woman quotes a phrase from the Karlson fragments that Caddie knows does not exist-and yet to Caddie, who knows Inga Karlson's work like she knows her name, it feels genuine.
Caddie is electrified. Jolted her from her sleepy, no-worries life in torpid 1980s Brisbane she is driven to investigate- to find the clues that will unlock the greatest literary mystery of the twentieth century.
