“The Thirteenth Tale” by Diana Setterfield is a recognized masterpiece of modern English prose, a book that opened the “neo-Gothic” genre to the general public and made Anglo-American critics talk about the return of the golden age of the British novel, covered with the names of Charlotte and Emily Brontë and Daphne Du Maurier . The debut novel of a modest teacher, the rights to which were bought for money unprecedented for a beginning author (800 thousand pounds for the British edition, a million dollars for the American edition), outsold the bestsellers of recent years, was instantly translated into several dozen languages and received an honorary award from reviewers. named "the new Jane Eyre." Margaret Lee works in her father's second-hand bookstore. She prefers Dickens and the Bronte sisters to modern times. Margaret is even more surprised when she receives an offer from the most famous writer of our days, Vida Winter, to become her biographer. After all, no less than for her books, Miss Winter is famous for the fact that she has not yet told a single word of the truth to any interviewer. And so before Margaret, who finds herself within the walls of a gloomy mansion inhabited by the ghosts of her past, a literally gothic story of twin sisters unfolds, which strangely echoes her personal story and gradually leads to the solution to the mystery that has driven many generations of readers crazy - the mystery "The Thirteenth Tale"...