Diane Setterfield






Diane Setterfield

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born
August 22, 1964

gender
female

place of birth
Reading, The United Kingdom

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Literature & Fiction


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Diane Setterfield is a British author whose debut novel, The Thirteenth Tale, became a New York Times #1 bestseller.

Before writing, Setterfield studied French Literature at Bristol University and specialized in 20th century French literature, particularly the works of Andre Gide. She taught at numerous schools as well as privately before leaving academia in the late 90s. She lives in North Yorkshire, England with her husband and four cats, and is currently working on her second novel.




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avg rating: 3.92 | 24,172 ratings | 5,989 reviews | 2 distinct works | 111 fans
The Thirteenth Tale The Thirteenth Tale
by Diane Setterfield
avg rating 3.92 — 22,136 ratings — published 2006
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by Diane Setterfield
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2010
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Diane Setterfield: Thirteenth Tale
 
Diane Setterfield: Thirteenth Tale
Diane SetterfieldThe Thirteenth Tale
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Set in Yorkshire, England, this richly atmospheric story-within-a-story will keep you guessing until...more
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"People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there is an exception to this annihilation. For in the books they write they continue to exist. We can rediscover them. Their humor, their tone of voice, their moods. Through the written word they can anger you or make you happy. They can comfort you. They can perplex you. They can alter you. All this, even though they are dead. Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in the ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic. --Margaret Lea"
Diane Setterfield (The Thirteenth Tale)
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"There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. 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. Inside you they work their magic."
Diane Setterfield (The Thirteenth Tale)
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"All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes -- characters even -- caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you.
-- Margaret Lea"
Diane Setterfield (The Thirteenth Tale)
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