The Thirteenth Tale

If you enjoy British authors, you should enjoy The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield, a prototypical English novel where a plain, bookish girl finds herself in a haunted house where she must uncover the salacious family secrets hidden there. Margaret Lea is a biographer and the daughter of a bookseller. She is contacted, rather out of the blue, by the elusive Vida Winter, an aging author who has decided that it is finally time to tell her life story. A life story which no one has yet uncovered, for Vida has given 19 different versions of her life story to journalists over just the past two years! Margaret agrees and moves to Angelfied to interview the dying author. There is a hint of Jane Eyre to this novel but there are also enough differences that you aren't thinking, 'haven't I already read this?' It will keep you entranced and you will want to know the mystery behind the Thirteenth Tale.