The Thirteenth Tale

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Former academic Setterfield pays tribute in her debut to Brontë and du Maurier heroines: a plain girl gets wrapped up in a dark, haunted ruin of a house, which guards family secrets that are not hers and that she must discover at her peril. Margaret Lea, a London booksellers daughter, has written an obscure biography that suggests deep understanding of siblings. She is contacted by renowned aging author Vida Winter, who finally wishes to tell her own, long-hidden, life story. Margaret travels to Yorkshire, where she interviews the dying writer, walks the remains of her estate at Angelfield and tries to verify the old womans tale of a governess, a ghost and more than one abandoned baby. With the aid of colorful Aurelius Love, Margaret puzzles out generations of Angelfield: destructive Uncle Charlie; his elusive sister, Isabelle; their unhappy parents; Isabelles twin daughters, Adeline and Emmeline; and the childrens caretakers. Contending with ghosts and with a (mostly) scary bunch of living people, Setterfields sensible heroine is, like Jane Eyre, full of repressed feeling—and is unprepared for both heartache and romance. And like Jane, shes a real reader and makes a terrific narrator. Thats where the comparisons end, but Setterfield, who lives in Yorkshire, offers graceful storytelling that has its own pleasures.

Książka "The Thirteenth Tale" - Diane Setterfield - oprawa miękka - Wydawnictwo Orion Publishing Group. Książka posiada 454 stron i została wydana w 2007 r.