![]() The Absolute Book is a love letter to many different things: mythology, stories, libraries, and books, especially those with scholarly heroes in search of some forbidden knowledge or object but where the journey turns out to be more important than the thing being searched for. ![]() In her native New Zealand, Elizabeth Knox is an award-winning author, an ONZM (New Zealand Order of Merit) and an Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate, but The Absolute Book is her first book to be published outside New Zealand and hopefully it won’t be the last. Their journey will take them across continents and into other worlds, in search of a box whose contents could shape their fate. Drawn into this long with her are DI Jacob Berger, who’s investigating a cold case he’s sure Taryn’s involved in, and a mercurial young man known as Shift, who is definitely more than he appears to be and may not even be of this world. Something is pursuing her in search of something from that library something that’s already survived several library fires a box that doesn’t burn. Unfortunately, she could do with remembering some of it rather quickly. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the interests of self-preservation, she’s purposefully quarantined most of her memories of her childhood, including those of her beloved grandfather’s library at Princes Gate. Taryn Cornick has never been the same since her sister was murdered. ![]()
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