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“Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. Impossible to understand one part without having a sense of the whole. ”
Charlie. Isabelle.
Adeline. Emmeline.
Vida Winter.
Margaret.
Aurelius.
Orphaned siblings. Troubled twins. Mysterious Writer. Biographer. A foundling.
And one story to bound them together. Sub plots spinning a yarn and weaving toget ...more
A gothic neo-Victorian tale with references and parallels to Jane Eyre. It features reclusive Margaret Lea, an amateur bibliographer who grows up in her father’s bookshop, and is asked to write the true story of famous author Vida Winters. Vida is more famous for the missing thirteenth tale than any of her other books. She has given a fantastical and different version of her life story to every journalist who has interviewed her, but has finally decided to tell the true tale. The story she tells
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I am both an obsessive reader and a professional writer, so I have a decided penchant for books-about-books, or books-about-bookstores. Since The Thirteenth Tale is both, it made my little heart happy.
Love, love, love old bookstores like the setting of this novel. They are a vanishing artifact, and I’m afraid my time browsing stacks may be coming to a close as readers switch to convenient tablets and online sellers. I’m a Luddite, I know, but I love the weight of a book resting in my hands as I ...more
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