Fiction/Bestseller - Fall 2007

The Thirteenth Tale
by Diane Setterfield
ISBN: 978-0-385-66284-0

From the Publisher:Biographer Margaret Lea returns one night to her apartment above her father's antiquarian bookshop. On her steps she finds a letter. It is a hand-written request from one of Britain’s most prolific and well-loved novelists, Vida Winter. The request takes Margaret by surprise–she doesn’t know the author, nor has she read any of Miss Winter’s dozens of novels.
While pondering whether to accept the task, Margaret begins to read her father’s rare copy of Miss Winter’s Thirteen Tales of Change and Desperation. She is spellbound by the stories and confused when she realizes the book only contains twelve stories. Where is the thirteenth tale? Intrigued, Margaret agrees to act as her biographer.
As Vida unfolds her story, she shares with Margaret the dark family secrets that she has long kept hidden. Margaret carefully records Miss Winter’s account and finds herself more and more deeply immersed in the strange and troubling story. In the end, both women have to confront their pasts and the weight of family secrets.

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