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Zusatztext Vastly entertaining Informationen zum Autor Diane Setterfield is in her early forties. Having spent time in France! she now lives in Harrogate. Her background is an academic one. Her previous publications have been in the field of 19th and 20th century French literature! especially the works of Andre Gide. Klappentext Margaret Lea works in her father's antiquarian bookshop where her fascination for the biographies of the long-dead has led her to write them herself. She gets a letter from one of the most famous authors of the day! the mysterious Vida Winter who is now old and ailing. Her letter to Margaret is a summons! because at last she wants to tell the truth about her extraordinary life. Margaret travels to Yorkshire to meet her subject - and Vida starts to recount her tale. As a biographer she doesn't entirely trust Vida's account so goes to check up on the family! visiting their old home and piecing together their story in her own way. What she discovers on her journey to the truth is for Margaret a transforming and life-changing experience... Zusammenfassung Vida Winter, a bestselling yet reclusive novelist, has created many outlandish life histories for herself, all of them invention. Now old and ailing, at last she wants to tell the truth about her extraordinary life. Her letter to biographer Margaret Lea - a woman with secrets of her own - is a summons. Vida's tale is one of gothic strangeness featuring the Angelfield family: the beautiful and wilful Isabelle and the feral twins Adeline and Emmeline. Margaret succumbs to the power of Vida's storytelling, but as a biographer she deals in fact not fiction and she doesn't trust Vida's account. As she begins her researches, two parallel stories unfold. Join Margaret as she begins her journey to the truth - hers, as well as Vida's.
