A review by jessiihaze
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

5.0

Hands down one of the best books I have ever read! If you love books this is the book for you. It has a little bit of everything in it. It was a definite page turner and loved every minute of it. The story starts out with a young english woman who works in her fathers bookstore. She receives a letter from a "famous" author inviting her to stay with her for a few weeks to write her biography because all the authors life she has never told the true story of her life and who she came to be. It is modern day in an english countryside but is written in an old fashioned style, very gothic like. The young girls character is very one dimensional and whom I found un-interesting at times but the story line and the character Vida Winters (the author seeking a biographer) makes up for it. This will be one that stays on my shelves for years and years to come.