Some days only three or four customers come in the shop. The income of the family comes from the father's work as a rare book finder for wealthy collectors. (The reason for this is revealed in due time). The mother of Margaret is disengaged from daily life. The store owner loves books and has passed this love along to his daughter. It is the kind of book store that may soon not exist anymore. The story begins in an old bookstore run by Margaret Lee and her father. The Thirteenth Tale takes us deeply into the minds of people who love books, old English Classics like Jane Eyre, The Woman in White, Wuthering Heights, Rebecca, and The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. The Thirteenth Tale is the epitome of such a book. The announced theme of my blog is "Twenty First century books about people who read books". The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (2006, 456 pages) is just a flat out wonderful book.
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