Setterfield, Diane
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2006 by Diane Setterfield
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows: Setterfield, Diane.
The thirteenth tale : a novel / Diane Setterfield.— 1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
p. cm.
1. Recluses as authors — Fiction. 2. Women authors — Fiction. 3. Female friendship — Fiction. I. Title. II. Title: 13th tale.
PS3619.E86T48 2006
813’.6 — dc22 2006042906
ISBN: 1-4165-4053-9
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