Lovereading Debut of the Year 2007.
Margaret Lea is approached by a world famous author, Vida Winter, to undertake her biography. Both their stories unfold with the book, beautifully told with a strong relationship developing between them. It’s a tale of real drama, only the author has spent her life inventing stories and, as a biographer, Margaret has to find the truth. This is a very fine novel indeed.
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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.
The Thirteenth Tale features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Thriller and Suspense, eBooks of the Month, Debut Books of the Month, Book Club Recommendations, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
The Thirteenth Tale is available in Paperback, Hardback
The Thirteenth Tale was written by Diane Setterfield and published by Orion Publishing Co
The Thirteenth Tale has 456 pages
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