![]() ![]() Margaret is reticent because all her interests and knowledge are in nineteenth century, not current, fiction. As far as anyone knows, she’s never told the truth about her life. This author, Vida Winter, is a well-known fabulist who regularly spins wild tales to the journalists sent to interview her. ![]() Out of the blue, she receives a letter from a famous author requesting that Margaret write a definitive biography. Our first narrator is Margaret Lea, an amateur biographer who works in her father’s antiquarian bookshop. But let me back up before I talk about my theory. And by the end, I started to see the story as an inverted version of Jane Eyre. There are numerous literary allusions and references in The Thirteenth Tale. Since I did such a half-assed (quarter-assed?) job the first time, here’s a proper review of The Thirteenth Tale. I even wrote a blog post on it, a short skimpy one. I read this book when it first came out, but I’ve had a yen to reread Diane Setterfield’s The Thirteenth Tale for a while now. ![]()
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