Bookmarks, January 1st, 2007
GOOD/EXCELLENT
The Thirteenth Tale
By Diane Setterfield
Secrets, ghosts, and lies.
Vida Winter is England's most popular novelist of her time. Notoriously inventive, she has been spinning yarns about her life for six decades. When the dying author contacts Margaret Lea, a naive bookseller in her father's store, in an effort to finally reveal her true life story, the intrigued Margaret cannot refuse. As Margaret starts to record Vida's story, a haunting tale of a ruined English estate, a deadly fire, wild twin girls, a governess, incest, passion, and a ghost emerges. Vida's story, in turn...
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