7/1/2023 0 Comments The thirteenth tale![]() Yes, there is a mysterious family estate said to be haunted. ![]() Copies of the book itself appear throughout the story, as do character, plot, and setting parallels. If Once Upon A River drew upon the Victorian novel for inspiration, The Thirteenth Tale is an homage of sorts to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. This fall, I finally picked up The Thirteenth Tale and its gothic tone felt perfectly suited to the season in which I was reading. Ever since reading that masterfully written novel, Dickensian in style, I have longed to read her first novel: The Thirteenth Tale (2006). Her most recent novel, Once Upon A River (2018) was one of the first I reviewed on LitReaderNotes nearly three years ago it is a captivating and haunting story that I utterly loved. ![]() ![]() One such spinner of tales is Diane Setterfield. Some story tellers captivate readers with the atmospheric moods their stories take on, with the dynamic characters-both good and bad and complicated, like all of us-that populate their pages, with the clever plot twists, the unexpected sown into the story seamlessly. ![]()
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