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Friday, March 28, 2014

This Month's Selection: The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

The Thirteenth Tale
by Diane Setterfield
Random House, 2006

From the publisher:
 
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 enchanting stories, has spent the past six decades penning a series of alternate lives for herself. Now old and ailing, she is ready to reveal the truth about her extraordinary existence and the violent and tragic past she has kept secret for so long. Calling on Margaret Lea, a young biographer troubled by her own painful history, Vida disinters the life she meant to bury for good. Margaret is mesmerized by the author's tale of gothic strangeness — featuring the beautiful and willful Isabelle, the feral twins Adeline and Emmeline, a ghost, a governess,a topiary garden and a devastating fire. Together, Margaret and Vida confront the ghosts that have haunted them while becoming, finally, transformed by the truth themselves.

Have you read The Thirteenth Tale? Does the description make you want to read it?

Join the online discussion using the comments! (You don't have to be a member of the Evening Readers Group to add a comment.) The Evening Readers will meet to discuss The Thirteenth Tale on Tuesday, April 22, at 6:30 p.m.

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