The thirteenth fairy tale. Setterfield D.

“The Thirteenth Tale” Diana Setterfield is a recognized masterpiece of modern English prose, a book that opened the neo-Genre of the “Neogotika” genre for the general public and forced Anglo-American critics to talk about the return of the Golden Age of the British Roman, covered in the names of Charlotte and Emily Bronte du Moria. The debut novel of a modest teacher, the rights to which were bought for the money unprecedented for a novice author (800 thousand pounds for the British edition, a million dollars for American), overtook the bestsellers in recent years, was instantly translated into several dozen languages ​​and was awarded from the reviewers of the honorary manner Name of "New" Jane Air "."

Margaret works in his father's bug of the Bukinistic shop. Modernity she prefers Dickens and Sisters Bronte. The greater the surprise of Margaret when she receives from the most famous writer of our days the species of Winter proposals to become her biographer. After all, no less than with her books, Miss Winter is famous for not yet said a single interviewer of the truth of Pravda. And before Margaret, who has appeared in the walls of the ghost, inhabited by the ghosts of the past mansion, the Gothic story of the twin sisters literally unfolds, which in a strange way echoes its personal history and gradually leads to unraveling the secrets that has been crazy for many generations of readers, the secret "Thirteenth Tale."