5/21/2023 0 Comments The thirteenth tale novelAs the master storyteller nears death, Margaret has yet to understand why she is the one Vida chose to record her tale. And what a story it is, replete with madness incest a pair of twins who speak a private language a devastating fire a ghost that opens doors and closes books a baby abandoned on a doorstep in the rain a page torn from a turn-of-the-century edition of Jane Eyre a cake-baking gentle giant skeletons topiaries blind housekeepers and suicide. For decades, the author has wildly fabricated answers to personal questions in interviews. There, she hears a story no one else knows: who Vida Winter really is. It is the coincidence of twins in the life of Vida Winter, Britain’s most famous writer, that convinces Margaret to leave her post at her father’s rare-books store and travel to the dying writer’s Yorkshire estate. Margaret Lea grew up in a household of mourning, but she never knew why until the day she opened a box of papers underneath her parent’s bed and found the birth and death certificates of a twin sister of whom she never knew. A dying writer bids a young bookshop assistant to write her biography.
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