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Diane Setterfield's debut novel The Thirteenth Tale was a no 1 New York Times bestseller. Published in 38 countries, it has sold more than 3 million copies and was made into a television drama scripted by Christopher Hampton, starring Olivia Colman and Vanessa Redgrave. Her second novel was Bellman & Black and her third novel is Once Upon a River. Born in rural Berkshire, she now lives in Oxford, by the Thames.
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The scandalous secrets of the Angelfield
family are a worthy addition to the most lauded of gothic
novels. Where did you get the idea for this dark, sordid family
history?
Quite honestly, I don't know. This book took
three years to write and its real genesis was longer still:
there was no single moment when I thought: Aha! What a great
idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of
numerous small ideas.
Miss Winter's voice was the first element of the
book to come to me, and that came from thinking about Patricia
Highsmith's Ripley character. I had been considering what it
must be like to know oneself to be one kind of person, whilst
consistently giving in public the impression of being an
entirely different kind of person. I was moved by the loneliness
such a person might feel, and in one of those exhilarating
rushes of inspiration (I wish there were more of them) dashed
down a piece that later became Miss Winter's letter to Margaret.
At that stage I didn't even know if it was the voice of a man or
a woman.
Later I had a dream in which I was approaching
the window of a large, dark house. The ...
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