Review the thirteenth tale5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Here’s a woman who cut her reading teeth on books like Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, after all. ![]() She hasn’t even read a word of Winter’s incredibly popular novels, and can’t understand what the fuss is about. Mystified, Margaret at first can’t believe it’s true. She’s deliberately set up a smokescreen to ensure her privacy.īut now she wants Margaret to write her biography. No one knows anything for certain about her life, partly because she’s given dozens of different stories to dozens of people eager for information about her. Mysterious and reclusive, Vida Winter is a complete enigma. One day she receives, out of the blue, a letter from the most famous writer in Britain. Her father is an antiquarian bookseller, and for as long as she can remember he’s been training her in the profession, never pushing but always encouraging. Margaret Lea is a young woman who’s grown up surrounded by books. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Publisher: Washington Square Press (October 9, 2007) ![]()
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