I've just seen that we're being treated to Olivia Coleman and Vanessa Redgrave in a television adaptation of The Thirteenth Tale this Christmas so I went in search of my 2006 review of this book. 

A GREAT READ...

A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to get hold of an advance reading copy of The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield. It’s one of those brick-weight paperbacks designed to break