Sometimes when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny.
Diane Setterfield Quotes
Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so.
Source: ignorance-is-not-bliss
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| Birth: | 22nd August, 1964 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Novelist |
About
Diane Setterfield was born in Reading, UK. She is an English novelist. Her 2006 debut novel, The Thirteenth Tale, became a New York Times No. 1 best-seller. She studied French Literature at The University of Bristol. Setterfield's PhD is on autobiographical structures in André Gide's early fiction. Diane Setterfield's new novel, Bellman & Black, was published in the autumn of 2013 by Emily Bestler Books in the USA.
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