It was number one in the New York Times hardback fiction list for three weeks and is enjoyed as much for being ‘a love letter to reading’ as for its mystery and style. Her bestselling novel, The Thirteenth Tale (2006) was published in 38 countries worldwide and has sold more than three million copies.
Inside you they work their magic.“…a mistress of the craft of storytelling.”ĭiane Setterfield is a British author. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. This book checks all the boxes for a gripping Gothic manor house story: two enigmatic authors, creepy twins, an imposing mansion, a beautiful but bleak location, and oh-so-many devastating secrets. These literary references offer a peek inside her psyche, so when she makes perilous choices like some whispy heroine in a gothic novel, her actions make a twisted sort of sense.
Our heroine, Margaret Lea, deeply loves books, and she lists among her favorite books several of our favorites, including Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and The Woman in White. They both use barbed words as defensive shields and weapons their verbal sparring is a dark treat. The tale unfolds from there with plenty of surprises and an emotional wallop.īoth women have suffered devastating losses that they’ve been carrying for so long, they’ve forgotten just how heavy those burdens can be. Sensing that death is closer than it’s ever been, she invites another writer (with secrets of her own) to document Vida’s life story at her isolated Yorkshire estate. It starts with a reticent old crone - a reclusive mystery author named Vida Winter.
The atmosphere curls around like a damp fog, and when the truth of a decades-old mystery is revealed, it is very satisfying and sad, as all good ghost stories should be. In this exquisitely spine-tingling ghost story, terribly broken people are haunted by their memories.
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