No strand untucked at the surprising and satisfying conclusion.Ī wholly original work told in the vein of all the best gothicĬlassics. Plot moving by unfurling a new twist in each chapter and leaves Positive light, opining that Setterfield "skillfully keeps the The reviewer forīooklist also references the short chapters, but in a much more "just as we discover where the holes are". Than Bronte, and that the pieces fall into place too easily Thirteenth Tale has more in common with Brown (Dan Brown) The reviewer for The Washington Post feels that The Protagonist with a knack for cracking codes, and a large cast ofĮccentric characters who enter and exit as the plot requires, With short chapters often ending on cliff hangers, a female It was very nostalgic for me to write in that sort of To go back to the English classics which I loved so much as a Setterfield says, "I read French literature almost exclusivelyįor more than a decade, so when I left academia, I really wanted Shortly after The Thirteenth Tale was published, Setterfield's erudite first work of fiction hasĪll the hallmarks of a classic gothic novel, including theĬreepy ruined house, long-kept secrets, a madwoman in the atticĪnd a dabbling of ghosts, Set in present-day England it hasĭrawn comparisons to novels by the likes of Daphne du Maurier, A love letter to reading, a book for the feral reader in all of us, a return to that rich vein of storytelling that our parents loved and that we loved as children.
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