Diane Setterfield
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Pub. Date
2018.
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When the seemingly dead body of a child reanimates hours after arriving at an ancient inn on the Thames, three families try to claim her.
On a dark midwinter's night in an ancient inn on the river Thames, an extraordinary event takes place. The regulars are telling stories to while away the dark hours, when the door bursts open on a grievously wounded stranger. In his arms is the body of a small child. Hours later, the girl stirs, takes a breath,...
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Pub. Date
2006.
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Aging, reclusive author Vida Winter, having given out multiple versions of her life story over the years, decides to finally set the record straight and engages Margaret Lea, a London bookseller's daughter, to write her biography, drawing the young woman into a tale of a governess, a ghost, a willful woman, feral twins, and a gothic mansion.
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Pub. Date
2013
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Killing a bird with his slingshot as a boy, William Bellman grows up a wealthy family man unaware of how his act of childhood cruelty will have terrible consequences until a wrenching tragedy compels him to enter into a macabre bargain with a stranger in black.
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Entre mentiras, recuerdos e imaginacion se teje la vida de la senora Winter, una famosa novelista ya muy entrada en anos que pide ayuda a Margaret, una mujer joven y amante de los libros, para contar por fin la historia de su misterioso pasado. Cuenteme la verdad, pide Margaret, pero la verdad duele y solo el dia en que Vida Winter muera sabremos que secretos encerraba El cuento numero trece, una historia que nadie se habia atrevido a escribir.