I bought this last Friday night then stayed up to finish it at 2am this morning - it was so good. This remarkable first novel from Diane Setterfield lived up to all its hype and delivered beautifully. Set mostly in Yorkshire, The Thirteenth Tale follows a novice biographer's journey to uncover the truth of the world's most beloved author, Vida Winter. Now nearing the end of her life, Miss Winter has sworn to tell the truth about her life (she's given 20 versions of it so far), and only to Margaret Lea, an antiquarian bookseller's daughter whose past holds a great loss. Thick with secrets in an atmosphere reminiscent of The Turn of the Screw, the novel is truly 'unputdownable'.
Next book? The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl. I'm in a 'murder mystery thriller' mode. Any others to recommend? Oh, The Villa of Mysteries by David Hewson was a disappointment. A police procedural set in Rome, it just lost me after the second chapter.
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