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The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (2006, Unabridged, Compact Disc) 
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (2006, Unabridged, Compact Disc)

 
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (2006, Unabridged, Compact Disc)

Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication Date: 2006-09-12
Language: English
Format: Audio
ISBN-10: 0743564170
ISBN-13: 9780743564175
Product ID: EPID57159678
Description: In this delicious, mind-bending, modern Gothic mystery, famous author Vida Winter has given countless fictional versions of her own life, confounding her biographers. However, at the end of her life, she contacts young Margaret Lea, who ...
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Synopsis
In this delicious, mind-bending, modern Gothic mystery, famous author Vida Winter has given countless fictional versions of her own life, confounding her biographers. However, at the end of her life, she contacts young Margaret Lea, who comes to the sprawling Angelfield estate in Yorkshire, and begins the task of figuring out fact from fiction, truth from shadow. As Vida's dark history unfurls, it becomes clear that it shares eerie similarities to Margaret's own. Both women have morbid pasts that come back to haunt them, both figuratively and literally.

Details
Publication Date:2006-09-12
Narrated by:Bianca Amato, Jill Tanner
Edition Description:Unabridged

Size
Height:5.8 in
Width:5.5 in
Thickness:1.5 in
Weight:13.6 oz

Industry Reviews
"[Diane] Setterfield has crafted an homage to the romantic heroines of du Maurier, Collins and the Bronte's. It is a contemporary gothic tale whose excesses...can be forgiven for the thrill of the storytelling." [Starred review.]
(07/15/2006)

"Whimsical, moving, and consciously nostalgic, Diane Setterfield knows the limits of enchantment, even as she tries to break them."
(09/15/2006)

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      "Do you intend to tell me the truth?"
    Review created: 01/12/07
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    5 of 11 people found this review helpful.

    Vida Winter, England's most famous and reclusive writer, is nearing the end, and before she goes she wants her amazing life story to be recorded for posterity. For this, she engages a lonely young biographer, Margaret Lea, who has a few secrets of her own. When these two forceful women meet, the stage is set for an ever-mounting series of shocking surprises.

    I've always been a fan of the Gothic style of romantic mystery, and some of my favorite authors are the Brontës, Daphne du Maurier, Mary Stewart, and Robert Goddard. If you share my love of windswept moors, bleak houses and strange families, you're in for a real treat. THE THIRTEENTH TALE is a masterful, deliberately old-fashioned story of secrets, ghosts, sexual obsession, murder, madness--you name it, and it's here.

    This is a beautiful book. I'm going to give copies to a few friends, and I plan to read it again. The only other books I've actually read twice are GREAT EXPECTATIONS, WUTHERING HEIGHTS, and REBECCA. What else can I say? Enjoy.


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