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Amazon.com Review 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. 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 a

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Author

Setterfield, Diane

Publisher

New York : Atria Books

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780743298032

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Romance

Rating

3.95 / 5 (216,084 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13