Someone is stalking Taryn – plaguing her with silent phone calls – and when a police detective, Jacob Berger, turns up on her doorstep asking questions about the death of Timothy Webber, Taryn suggests that Berger should stop bothering her and look for the stalker instead. Soon after his release, Beatrice’s killer is found dead in a ditch not far from the site of the original accident.
The perpetrator, Timothy Webber, is sentenced to six years in jail Taryn remains convinced that her sister’s death was not an accident, but murder. When Taryn Cornick is still a teenager, her older sister Beatrice is killed in a hit-and-run. The Absolute Book has the feel of an instant classic, a work to rank alongside other modern masterpieces of fantasy such as Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series or Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. That international success has thus far been denied her is something of a scandal, but with her latest work the tide could be about to turn. Above all, it is a declaration of love for stories and the ways in which they shape our worlds and create gods out of mortals.E lizabeth Knox is the recipient of a multitude of literary honours in her native New Zealand, with the kind of popular following that befits the luminous quality of her writing. It is a book of journeys and returns, from contemporary England to Auckland, New Zealand from a magical fairyland to Purgatory. The Absolute Book is epic, action-packed fantasy in which hidden treasures are recovered, wicked things resurface, birds can talk, and dead sisters are a living force.
Finally a shadowy young man named Shift appears, forcing Taryn and Jacob toward a reckoning felt in more than one world. Then there are questions about a fire in the library at her grandparents' house and an ancient scroll box known as the Firestarter, as well as threatening phone calls and a mysterious illness. but not all of the attention it brings her is good.Ī policeman, Jacob Berger, questions her about a cold case. She has written a successful book about the things that threaten libraries: insects, damp, light, fire, carelessness and uncaring. Taryn Cornick believes that the past-her sister's violent death, and her own ill-conceived revenge-is behind her, and she can get on with her life. It is everything fantasy should be." - The Guardian "Intricately plotted and gorgeously written, The Absolute Book is a cinematic tale that is by turns dark and dreamlike, yet ultimately hopeful." -Deborah Harkness, New York Times bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches A bewitching epic fantasy about a revenge killing, a mysterious scroll box that has survived centuries of fires, and the book that changed everything
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