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Sep 12, 2006 · 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.
It was once home to the March family – fascinating, manipulative Isabelle, brutal, dangerous Charlie, and the wild, untamed twins, Emmeline and Adeline. But Angelfield House hides a chilling secret which strikes at the very heart of each of them, tearing their lives apart….
In The Thirteenth Tale, the novel Jane Eyre appears several times. Discuss the appearances and allusions to Jane Eyre and how this novel echoes that one. The story shifts significantly after the death of Mrs. Dunne and John Digence.
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Sep 12, 2006 · The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel. Diane Setterfield. Simon and Schuster, Sep 12, 2006 - Fiction - 416 pages. Instant #1 New York Times bestseller. “Readers will feel the magnetic pull of this paean...
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A #1 New York Times bestseller, The Thirteenth Tale is part contemporary, part historical with mysterious threads about family secrets and the magic of books and storytelling weaving the two together.All children mythologize their birth . . .
Dec 30, 2013 · With Janet Amsden, Alice Barlow, Isabel Barlow, Emily Beecham. Follows aging novelist Vida Winter, who enlists a young writer to finally tell the story of her life including her mysterious childhood spent in Angelfield House, which burned to the ground when she was a teenager.
Biographer Margaret Lea (Olivia Colman) interviews reclusive writer Vida Winter (Vanessa Redgrave) and uncovers secrets from her strange childhood.
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