Diane Setterfield
Author
Language
English
Description
"On a dark midwinter's night in an ancient inn on the river Thames, the regulars are telling stories when a wounded stranger enters carrying the lifeless body of a small child. Hours later, the girl stirs, takes a breath and returns to life. Many secretsmust be revealed before the girl's identity can be known"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Margaret Lea opened the door to the past, what she confronted was her destiny. All children mythologize their birth...So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter's collection of stories, which are as famous for the mystery of the missing thirteenth tale as they are for the delight and enchantment of the twelve that do exist. The enigmatic Winter has spent six decades creating various outlandish life histories for herself -- all of...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 -- $c Source other than Library of Congress.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged
Language
Español
Description
¿Dónde está la verdad?
La historia más importante de su vida era la que nunca había escrito.
Entre mentiras, recuerdos e imaginación se teje la vida de la señora Winter, una famosa novelista ya muy entrada en años que pide ayuda a Margaret, una mujer joven y amante de los libros, para contar por fin la historia de su misterioso pasado.
«Cuénteme la verdad», pide Margaret, pero la verdad duele, y solo
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