Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO), September 29th, 2006
Byline: Jennie A. Camp, Special to the News
* Fiction. By Diane Setterfield. Atria, $26. .Grade: A-
Plot in a nutshell: When young Margaret Lea, a used-bookseller's daughter who has grown up enamored with the dank smell of old paper, receives a letter from famous author Vida Winter, she's startled by the reclusive writer's request that Margaret pen her long-sought-after biography. Miss Winter confesses in her letter that a reporter once implored her with a simple but laden request: "Tell me the truth." Miss Winter instead invented yet another famous Vida Winter tale, but in her letter to M...
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