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The Thirteenth Tale

Diane Setterfield · 2006

432 pages

A bookseller's daughter is summoned by a reclusive author who has never told the truth about her life. As the old woman finally recounts her childhood at a crumbling country house, the listener realises the story hides one more secret. A gothic tale about stories, sisters and the gaps between them.

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Gothic, Gothic Manor, Unreliable Narrator, Twist Ending

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