![]() ![]() ![]() that she won’t read unless she’s sitting down. Raised primarily by her book loving father rather than by her mother, Margaret, herself becomes so involved in books, letters, diaries, etc. Margaret’s interest “has always been in writing biographies of the also-rans people who lived in the shadow of fame in their own lifetime and who, since their deaths, have sunk into profound obscurity.” She does write an occasional short biography, but she’s no Kitty Kelly. Margaret is a young woman who seems to have no life outside of her room, the six hours she devotes to reading each night, and her work in her father’s antiquarian bookstore. ![]() In “The Thirteenth Tale,” author Vida Winter has a story to tell, and she chooses the very unlikely person of Margaret Lea to tell it to. However, the promise of a “Gothic” tale was encouraging, and I did love the cover art. ![]() Hype steers me away from books more often that it steers me towards them, and I just didn’t think the writing would be the kind of writing I’d like. I bought Diane Setterfield’s bestseller, “The Thirteenth Tale” on impulse, when I saw it lying on a bargain table in the grocery store. ![]()
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