Margaret Lea has been carrying around a hidden grief for her entire life. When one day she receives a letter from famous author Vida Winters, Margaret Lea can't understand why Winters would choose her to tell her life story to. As Margeret falls under the spell of the truth of Vida Winters and who she was before, she discovers that she can understand, and connect with the author more than she ever though possible.

This one didn't let me down. It took me a few days to get into but once I did, I flew through the story. The whole novel is drenched in mystery and darkness. There's a very sombre air throughout the words, in both the tale being told and Margaret Lea's own life and the things she has yet to face with her own mother and father and the

sister

she never knew. There was a point, in the big reveal, where I did wonder how it was possible,

How was it so convenient that Vida would look enough like Adeline and Emmeline to be thought of as the twin? I just wonder how she could look identical enough, as she was only a half-sister. And I'm presuming the twins were definitely the result of incest between two already-mad people

Overall, I enjoyed this one and I'm going to pick up Setterfield's other books. Dark, dreary but un-putdownable.