![]() ![]() I also particularly liked the deliberate timelessness of the story – it is very difficult to pinpoint exactly when it is set and this is not something that I have often come across before. Nevertheless, the story itself was interesting enough to hold my attention and I was keen to find out what happened at the end. ![]() However, after a really excellent beginning, I felt that the rest of the book didn’t quite manage to sustain the same amount of tension. Any book lover will love the opening chapters describing Margaret’s life working in her father’s antique bookshop and her compulsive passion for reading. ![]() ‘The Thirteenth Tale’ is a gothic tale which features many references to classic Victorian novels such as ‘Jane Eyre’, ‘The Woman in White’ and ‘Wuthering Heights’. Having previously avoided revealing any true details about her past to other interviewers, Vida is now seriously ill and wants to tell the real story of her childhood at Angelfield when she was known as Adeline March before she dies. ![]() ‘The Thirteenth Tale’ by Diane Setterfield tells the story of Vida Winter, a successful author who commissions Margaret Lea, the reclusive daughter of a bookshop owner, to write her biography. ![]()
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