Inga Karlson’s first book was a literary sensation, but tragically she died in a warehouse fire which also destroyed the only known copy of her second book. The Fragments is part-romantic comedy, part-literary mystery, and part-historical drama, all of which add up to a fresh and beguiling story centred on the lost novel of a mysterious woman writer of the 1930s. What a wonderful book this is! Toni Jordan is one of my favourite Australian authors, drawing effortlessly on multiple genres to create charming, warm-hearted and utterly compelling novels that are each distinctly different from each other. 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 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.Ĭaddie is electrified. 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. INGA 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 mystery that has captivated generations of readers.
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