| | I finally finish The Thirteenth Tale
by Diane Setterfield. It was a really good book. The main
character, Margaret Lea, is asked to do to biography of Vida Winter, a
famous, reclusive author. In all the interviews Vida Winter has
given (hundreds over her lifetime), she always lied about her
past. She gives fantastic stories of her life: the daughter of a
priest and a schoolmistress, the runaway child of a Parisian courtesan,
an orphan raised in a Swiss convent, and so on. With every book
published and every story told to reporters, Vida Winter gets more
famous and more mysterious, but Margaret isn't interested in a story,
she wants the truth. Vida Winter, old and ill, is finally ready
to tell her past on one condition, she starts from the beginning and
ends with the end--no skipping around. Her past is even more
mysterious than the story she creates. It centers around the
Angelfield family and a fire in the family's house.
I enjoyed the book a lot. It was gothic in
nature (seems like a theme to the books I have read recently), and even
had a mystery to it.
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