Emily's Musings

The Thirteenth Tale

Stayed up very late to finish The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield last night. Kathryn at work had lent it to me and from the first page I was hooked.

Web Site for the book (including a chance to win a leather-bound edition)

Its another real booklovers book (here's a list of the character's favorite books and has a strong dose of Jane Eyre running through it.

Reading Group Guide

Vida Winter, a bestselling yet reclusive novelist, has created many outlandish life histories for herself, all of them invention. Now old and ailing, at last she wants to tell the truth about her extraordinary life. Her letter to biographer Margaret Lea - a woman with secrets of her own - is a summons. Vida's tale is one of gothic strangeness featuring the Angelfield family: the beautiful and wilful Isabelle and the feral twins Adeline and Emmeline. Margaret succumbs to the power of Vida's storytelling, but as a biographer she deals in fact not fiction and she doesn't trust Vida's account. As she begins her researches, two parallel stories unfold. Join Margaret as she begins her journey to the truth - hers, as well as Vida's.

Posted by Emily at October 28, 2006 08:42 AM