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The Thirteenth Tale

Diane Setterfield

Start date: August 2, 2014

Finish date: August 21, 2014

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Margaret receives an unexpected invitation from a reclusive, mysterious, best-selling writer - "come write my biography". Vida Winters is famous for spinning a different story for every reporter that comes to ask about her life when one of her books is published (all fifty-six of them), and turning down twenty-two biographers that have asked to write her life story. Margaret is the semi-reclusive daughter of an antique bookseller who has written a few essays about the almost-famous. As Margaret ...more

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