![]() Margaret's interest is automatically piqued - partly out of professional interest, as she really wants the origin of this mysterious thirteenth tale, but also to assuage her own insecurities about her past. Vida is famous for writing a book called The Thirteen Tales, but only twelve of the tales were ever published, and then under an assumed name. Margaret receives a baffling letter from Vida, asking her to come to her house in the midst of Yorkshire to listen to her confessional. ![]() ![]() Uneasy about finally letting the truth be known, Vida enlists the assistance of Margaret Lea, aīookish young literary writer who has been helping her father run an antiquarian bookshop in London. Indeed, Miss Winter seems to be a remnant of a bygone age and has been agonizing over the mystery of her life for quite some time. World-famous octogenarian novelist Vida Winter, who is anxious to tell the story of her past before chronic illness kills her. ![]() "One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people," says ![]()
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