The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

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.

Diane Setterfield is in her early forties. Having spent time in France, she now lives in Harrogate. Her background is an academic one. Her previous publications have been in the field of 19th and 20th century French literature, especially the works of Andre Gide.

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ISBN 13	9780752875743
ISBN 10	0752875744
Title	The Thirteenth Tale
Author	Diane Setterfield
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Orion Publishing Co
Year published	2006-09-06
Number of pages	416
Prizes	Winner of Yorkshire Book of the Year 2007, Short-listed for British Book Awards: Newcomer of the Year 2007
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