The thirteenth tale

ISBN: 9780307371935 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 030737193X (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource remote 1 online resource.
Publisher: [Toronto] : Anchor Canada, 2007.

Summary: Biographer Margaret Lea returns one night to her apartment above her father's antiquarian bookshop. On her steps she finds a letter. It is a hand-written request from one of Britain's most prolific and well-loved novelists. Vida Winter, gravely ill, wants to recount her life story before it is too late, and she wants Margaret to be the one to capture her history. The request takes Margaret by surprise--she doesn't know the author, nor has she read any of Miss Winter's dozens of novels.