The Thirteenth Tale

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield is a great mystery novel. The story is told from the viewpoint of an amateur biographer, Margaret Lea, who is asked to finally write the biographer of one of the greatest authors of all time. The author, Vida Winter, has always told fictional stories to biographies, and asks Margaret to finally tell the real story. However, there is a catch. Vida still wants to tell it as a story. So Margaret must pick out the truth from the fiction. And it is definitely a strange tale. Vida tells of a brother and sister with an oddly close relationship, feral twins, a governess, a ghost, an experiment, and so much more.
It is a lot of fun to read this book and try to find the truth. I found myself constantly searching to figure out who Vida really was. There are a lot of Jane Eyre references in the book as well, which I could definitely appreciate. This was a book that I was very sad to finish, as I could have kept reading.
Have you read it? Do you want to? Tell me what you think!