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Settle down to enjoy a rousing good ghost story with Diane Setterfield's debut novel, The Thirteenth Tale. Setterfield has rejuvenated the genre with this closely plotted, clever foray into a world of secrets, confused identities, lies, and half-truths. She never cheats by pulling a rabbit out of a hat; this atmospheric story hangs together perfectly.
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There are two heroines here: Vida Winter, a famous author, whose life story is coming to an end, and Margaret Lea, a young, unworldly, bookish girl who is a bookseller in her father's shop. Vida has been confounding her biographers and fans for years by giving everybody a different version of her life, each time swearing it's the truth. Because of a biography that Margaret has written about brothers, Vida chooses Margaret to tell her story, all of it, for the first time. At their initial meeting, the conversation begins:
"You have given nineteen different versions of your life story to journalists in the last two years alone."
She [Vida] shrugged. "It's my profession. I'm a storyteller."
"I am a biographer, I work with facts."
The game is afoot and Margaret must spend some time sorting out whether or not Vida is actually ready to tell the whole truth. There is more here of Margaret discovering than of Vida cooperating wholeheartedly, but that is part of Vida's plan. The transformative power of truth informs the lives of both women by story's end, and The Thirteenth Tale is finally and convincingly told. --Valerie Ryan
Diane Setterfield is a former academic, specializing in twentieth-century French literature. She lives in Yorkshire, England.
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- PublisherBond Street Books
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0752875744
- ISBN 13 9780752875743
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages416
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. 408 pages. Cover worn'Tell me the truth'. It is a simple requ est, but one that shakes the reclusive and enigmatic novelist, Vi da Winter, to her very core. For has she not spent the past six d ecades writing fictional lives that have not only brought her fam e and fortune but kept her violent and tragic past a secret? Now old and ailing, Vida Winter cannot escape her own history, no mat ter how many stories she weaves. --COVER. Seller Inventory # 2395n
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Book Description Condition: Good. 'Tell me the truth'. It is a simple request, but one that shakes the reclusive and enigmatic novelist, Vida Winter, to her very core. For has she not spent the past six decades writing fictional lives that have not only brought her fame and fortune but kept her violent and tragic past secret? Now old and ailing Vida Winter cannot escape her own history, no matter how many stories she weaves. 'Tell me the truth'. These words from the past echo in the heat of young biographer Margaret Lea, for whom the secret of her own birth, hidden by those who love her most, remains an ever-present pain. With a letter that finally promises to reveal the long-kept secrets of her life, Vida Winter invites Margaret on a journey into the past. Vida's tale is one of gothic strangeness featuring the Angelfield family: the beautiful and wilful Isabelle and the feral twins, Adeline and Emmeline. In succumbing to Vida's storytelling, Margaret finds that it sheds a troubling light on her own life. Both women confront the ghosts that have haunted them and both become, finally, transformed by the truth. 416 pages. Seller Inventory # 1302099
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