The Thirteenth Tale

" The Thirteenth Tale" by Diane Setterfield is a love book to reading. Confident, creepy, and absorbing. Vida Winter's collection of stories, which are as famous for the mystery of the missing thirteenth tale as they are for the delight and enchantment of the twelve that do exist. The enigmatic Winter has spent six decades creating various outlandish histories for herself. She summons biographer Margaret Lea, a young woman who is struck by a very curious parallel between Winter's life and her own. It is a tale of gothic strangeness.