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The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield - Instant #1 New York Times bestseller “Readers will feel the magnetic pull of this paean to words, books and the ma...
Her latest book is Once Upon a River. She lives in Oxford, UK. 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.
9 ott 2007 · The Thirteenth Tale. : Diane Setterfield. Simon and Schuster, Oct 9, 2007 - Fiction - 406 pages. 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 ...
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield is, as the title suggests, a story about stories. It's also a story about twins, and loss, and loneliness, and the gradual decline of the upper classes in the early 20th century, and all manner of other things. It's not so much a mystery as a seemingly limitless number of mysteries: the plot, and indeed ...
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Open Preview. The Thirteenth Tale Quotes Showing 1-30 of 424. “People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there is an exception to this annihilation.
9 ott 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. Reclusive author Vida Winter, famous for her collection of twelve ...
12 set 2006 · A 21st-century Gothic ghost story that would do the Brontë sisters proud, The Thirteenth Tale also explores why readers become so fascinated with authors’ lives—and how our own lives drive our infatuation with words. Former academic Setterfield pays tribute in her debut to Bront and du Maurier heroines: a plain girl gets wrapped up in a ...
