![]() ![]() ![]() After a paragraph, she is hooked, quickly devours the rest of the author’s output, and accepts the commission. Curious as to how she has been selected for this honour, and unable to sleep because of her sadness about her life, Margaret begins to read an early book of stories by Vida, entitled "The Thirteenth Tale". Out of the blue, Margaret receives a letter in terrible handwriting, which she deciphers as being an invitation from Vida Winter, who wants Margaret to write her biography. She's written a few articles on her non-fiction research, one of them having been published in an academic journal. All her life she has loved reading, but has never attempted a contemporary novel. Margaret Lea is a young, repressed woman who lives in a bare room above her father's antiquarian bookshop. Throughout her career, she's been interviewed many times but has always given different and fantastical stories about her life, so that she's preserved an aura of mystery. Vida Winter is the most respected and widely read living writer, now coming to the end of her life. ![]() THE THIRTEENTH TALE is a magnificent, beautifully written and involving story, a modern version of a Victorian novel. Setterfield, Diane - 'The Thirteenth Tale' ![]() Review - The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield ![]()
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