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Simon & Schuster Audio, September 2006
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ISBN-10: 0743563832
ISBN-13: 9780743563833
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Sometimes, when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny.
Reclusive author Vida Winter, famous for her collection of twelve enchanting stories, has spent the past six decades penning a series of alternate lives for herself. Now old and ailing, she is ready to reveal the truth about her extraordinary existence and the violent and tragic past she has kept secret for so long. Calling on Margaret Lea, a young biographer troubled by her own painful history, Vida disinters the life she meant to bury for good. Margaret is mesmerized by the author's tale of gothic strangeness -- featuring the beautiful and willful Isabelle, the feral twins Adeline and Emmeline, a ghost, a governess,a topiary garden and a devastating fire. Together, Margaret and Vida confront the ghosts that have haunted them while becoming, finally, transformed by the truth themselves.
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Pittsburgh Almanac, January 6, 2010
...Jan 9, 16, 23 and 30. n Adult Book Club, 6:30 p.m. Jan. 25. Read 'The Thirteenth Tale' by Diane Setterfield. South Park n Witness photos of Alaska to Tierra Del Duego with photographer Dr. Robert Trivus. n Beading/jewelry design, 6 p.m. Jan. ...
Guardian.co.uk, December 11, 2009
...monochrome fact behind Adichie's petrol-rainbow prose. Without a doubt, the worst back-matter offender I've encountered is Diane Setterfield's The Thirteenth Tale , which I enjoyed as a gothic holiday nibble but spat out violently when I ...
About, November 12, 2009
...her observation of fairly ordinary events 'domestic'? Right now I'm in the midst of reading The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield, which reminds me of another novel, The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Both revolve around ...
Tampa Bay Newspapers, June 9, 2009
...the Clearwater Public Library System, 100 N. Osceola Ave., Clearwater. Call 562-4970. ? The book club discusses ?The Thirteenth Tale? by Diane Setterfield on Thursday, June 11, 4 p.m., at St. Petersburg Public Library System?s South Branch, ...
Albany Herald, March 28, 2009
...Diane Setterfield produced a wonderful debut novel with 'The Thirteenth Tale.' Told in the gothic tradition, it reminds the reader of classics such as 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Jane Eyre.' The book ...
Albany Herald, March 27, 2009
...Bookin? with Michele Barsom: Diane Setterfield produced a wonderful debut novel with ?The Thirteenth Tale.? Told in the gothic tradition, it reminds the reader of classics such as ?Wuthering Heights? and ?Jane Eyre.? The book ...
VOX.com, February 1, 2009
...if it's a picture book, doesn't it? I went through a phase last winter, after enjoying Diane Setterfield's The Thirteenth Tale, in which I decided to make up for a gaping hole in my literary experience and read Jane Austen,* gothic novels, ...
Missoulian, January 2, 2009
...Pete Fromms true tale of a winter spent in the Selway-Bitterroot. Rounding out the list, we have The Thirteenth Tale, a literary novel by Diane Setterfield; Eat, Pray, Love, the popular memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert; Tales of Beedle The Bard, ...
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