The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield

I've just finished reading this book and had to write a review about it straight away because it was just so good - everyone should go straight out and buy it! I read quite a lot, but it's not often that I find a book that I can devour within twenty four hours of starting it - this book is an exception. I'm not sure why I bought this book - I think it must have been on offer on Amazon or something as the cover says that it costs £12.99, but I know for a fact I would never have spent that much on a book, however good it is! Based on the fact that I read the book in under twenty four hours you've probably guessed already that this book isn't a weighty ...

Now and again a book comes along that takes your breath away and leaves you gasping with surprise at just how good it is. Diane Setterfield's debut novel, THE THIRTEENTH TALE, is as fine an example of this as you are ever going to get and so far I have yet to hear a single bad review or opinion of this novel. Some of you may know, I am a member of the book swap site, READITSWAPIT, and on the forums there I run a regular thread where people can nominate their best reads each month until, at the end of the year, members vote for their favourite from a short-list of contenders. This book won the best RISI read of 2007!! This may not mean a lot but when you consider how many ...