![]() ![]() ![]() She is unexpectedly spellbound by the stories and confused when she realises the book contains only twelve stories. While considering the offer, Lea's curiosity prompts her to read her father's rare copy of Winter's Thirteen Tales of Change and Desperation. Lea is surprised by the proposal, as she is only vaguely aware of the famous author and has not read any of the dozens of novels penned by Winter. ![]() It requests her presence at the author's residence and offers the chance to write Winter's life story before she succumbs to a terminal illness. The novel opens as Lea returns to her apartment above her father's antiquarian bookshop and finds a hand-written letter from Winter. With her own family secrets, Lea finds the process of unraveling the past for Winter bringing her to confront her own ghosts. ![]() With her health quickly fading, Winter enlists Margaret Lea, a bookish amateur biographer, to hear her story and write her biography. Her entire life is a secret: and, for over fifty years, reporters and biographers have tried innumerable methods in an attempt to extract the truth from Winter. 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. The Thirteenth Tale (2006) by Diane Setterfield is a gothic suspense novel, the author's first published book. ![]()
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