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Vida Winter, a bestselling yet reclusive novelist, has created many outlandish life histories for herself, all of them invention. Now old and ailing, at last she wants to tell the truth about her extraordinary life. Her letter to biographer Margaret Lea - a woman with secrets of her own - is a summons. Vida's tale is one of gothic strangeness featuring the Angelfield family: the beautiful and wilful Isabelle and the feral twins Adeline and Emmeline. Margaret succumbs to the power of Vida's storytelling, but as a biographer she deals in fact not fiction and she doesn't trust Vida's account. As she begins her researches, two parallel stories unfold. Join Margaret as she begins her journey to the truth - hers, as well as Vida's.
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The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield
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- Released
- 2006
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- Title
- The Thirteenth Tale
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Diane Setterfield
- Publisher
- Bond Street Books
- Released
- 2006
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 408
- ISBN10
- 0752875744
- ISBN13
- 9780752875743
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Mystery Novels, Thriller, Family, Women, 20th century, British Literature, Death, England, Memories, Psychological Thrillers, Great Britain, Adapted for Film, Diseases, Diaries, Psychological novels, Gothic, About Books, Siblings, Search, Family secrets, Female Writers, Twins
- First published
- 2006
- Original title
- The Thirteenth Tale
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
- Description
- Vida Winter, a bestselling yet reclusive novelist, has created many outlandish life histories for herself, all of them invention. Now old and ailing, at last she wants to tell the truth about her extraordinary life. Her letter to biographer Margaret Lea - a woman with secrets of her own - is a summons. Vida's tale is one of gothic strangeness featuring the Angelfield family: the beautiful and wilful Isabelle and the feral twins Adeline and Emmeline. Margaret succumbs to the power of Vida's storytelling, but as a biographer she deals in fact not fiction and she doesn't trust Vida's account. As she begins her researches, two parallel stories unfold. Join Margaret as she begins her journey to the truth - hers, as well as Vida's.