Title: The Thirteenth Tale
Author: Diane Setterfield
If you like an engrossing novel, with lots of twists, great characters, excellent writing, moors, missing twins, and tortured narrators, The Thirteenth Tale is a great read. Margaret Lea, an aspiring biographer, is called to tell the life story of Vida Winter, England's greatest living novelist. But the tale Winter tells forces Lea to confront her own past.
I wasn't really expecting to love The Thirteenth Tale. The story didn't sound all that interesting, I don't love ghost stories, and the author looks kind of like Winona Ryder's freaky mom in Beetlejuice. But when I picked it up at the librarian whispered, "I'm not supposed to give people my opinion, but this book is soooo good." And once I started reading it, I couldn't put it down. If you read one book this summer, make it this one.
--originally published 6/11/07
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