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Vida Winter, a famous novelist in England, has evaded journalists' questions about her past, refusing to answer their inquiries and spinning elaborate tales that they later discover to be false.
Oct 9, 2007 · Instant #1 New York Times bestseller. “Readers will feel the magnetic pull of this paean to words, books and the magical power of story.”—People. “Eerie and fascinating.”—USA TODAY. Sometimes, when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny.
Sep 12, 2006 · The Thirteenth Tale is a gothic suspense novel from 2006 with echoes from several Victorian novels. The familiar device of a "story within a story" is employed, and sometimes it even contains another story.
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….
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.
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.
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.
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...
The Thirteenth Tale is a British drama television film that first broadcast on BBC Two on 30 December 2013. It is an adaptation of Diane Setterfield's 2006 gothic novel The Thirteenth Tale.
Oct 9, 2007 · 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.
