The Thirteenth Tale

Diane Setterfield (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

416 Seiten

2006
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) (Verlag)
978-0-7528-7573-6 (ISBN)

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A compelling emotional mystery in the timeless vein of Daphne du Maurier's REBECCA, about family secrets and the magic of books and storytelling

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.

Diane Setterfield is in her early forties. Having spent time in France, she now lives in Harrogate. Her background is an academic one. Her previous publications have been in the field of 19th and 20th century French literature, especially the works of Andre Gide.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.9.2006
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 241 mm
Gewicht	753 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
ISBN-10	0-7528-7573-6 / 0752875736
ISBN-13	978-0-7528-7573-6 / 9780752875736
Zustand	Neuware