The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Item Number: 293
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Instant #1 New York Times bestseller
Reclusive author Vida Winter, famous for her collection of twelve enchanting stories, has spent the past six decades penning a series of alternate lives for herself. Now old and ailing, she is ready to reveal the truth about her extraordinary existence and the violent and tragic past she has kept secret for so long. Calling on Margaret Lea, a young biographer troubled by her own painful history, Vida disinters the life she meant to bury for good. Margaret is mesmerized by the author's tale of gothic strangeness—featuring the beautiful and willful Isabelle, the feral twins Adeline and Emmeline, a ghost, a governess, a topiary garden and a devastating fire. Together, Margaret and Vida confront the ghosts that have haunted them while becoming, finally, transformed by the truth themselves.
"Eerie and fascinating." â USA Today
"Pitch-perfect." â Entertainment Weekly
"A book that you wake in the middle of the night craving to get back to . . . . Timeless, charming, a pure pleasure to read . . . . The Thirteeth Tale is a book to savor a dozen times." â The San Diego Union-Tribune
"A wholly original work told in the vein of all the best gothic classics. Lovers of books about book lovers will be enthralled." â Booklist
"The shared literary landscape that The Thirteenth Tale re-creates with lush precision takes us back to a time when reading could seem more compelling than life." â The Columbus Dispatch
"A spellbinding story that grabs the reader from the opening pages." â Toronto Sun
"Setterfield proves a mistress of the craft of storytelling, and her musings about the pleasures of reading are most beguiling." â The Guardian
"Readers will feel the magnetic pull of this paean to words, books and the magical power of story." â People
"This will without a doubt be one of the best books published this year." â Daily American
"Readers will be mesmerized by this story-within-a-story tinged with the eeriness of Rebecca and the willfulness of Jane Eyre. The author . . . . leaves no strand untucked at the surprising and satisfying conclusion." â Booklist
Used - Very good
Published 2007. 432 pages. 5.31 x 1.1 x 8.25" Paperback
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