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Die Büglerin
“The Ironing Woman” (title translated by AI)
Heinrich Steinfest (born 1961)
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Tonia Schreiber irons the laundry of her wealthy Heidelberg clients by hand, carefully and precisely, for poor pay. Ironing is her penance. Her life began under the best of signs: the daughter of renowned botanists, she spent her childhood on a sailing yacht, became a marine biologist, lived in her parents' Viennese villa full of aquariums and raised her niece Emilie together with her half-sister. Then Emilie was killed in a shooting, and Tonia, believing herself partly to blame, gave up her friends, her fortune and science. It is through her work as an ironer that she begins to uncover what lay behind the attack.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 286 pages in the original
- Genres
- Crime (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Germany, Austria
- First published
- 2018 by Piper Verlag
- Author's age
- 57 when first published
- ISBN
9783492056632 (original)