![]() Vida Winter is an eccentric author whose most famous book, Thirteen Tales of Change and Desperation, actually featured only 12 tales, making the world curious about her and the missing tale the lone copy sold before the mistake was caught and “thirteen” was removed from the title is in the possession of Margaret’s father. ![]() Margaret prefers to read classic novels, so when England’s most famous contemporary author requests her as a biographer, she doesn’t know what to expect. Voracious readers like myself won’t have any trouble connecting with her because she talks a lot about her passion for books and all the classics she’s loved over the years. The primary narrator is Margaret Lea, an amateur biographer who works in her father’s antique book shop. It’s a hard book to describe because there are so many twists and turns, and I don’t want to give anything away. The Thirteenth Tale is a novel after a book lover’s heart. ![]() (from The Thirteenth Tale, pages 289-290) Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes - characters even - caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you. All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. ![]()
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