The Thirteenth Tale is a wonderful novel of twists and turns of wondering what is real and what is false. I came across this novel when it was recommended to me after reading Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian. I was expecting some similarity between the two but other than the books being written in the narrator's point of view and both having a gothic aura to them both were unique and quite different. 
 In The Thirteenth Tale the story follows the narrator, Margaret Lea as she tells the story of her personal life as well as the famous writer she is writing a biography for, Vida Winter's as she recounts the story of her life or more so the lives of her mother, uncle, the house keeper, the gardener, and her twin. The story is (like Vida Winter's tales) engrossing and hard to put down. The reader is in a constant trance as Margaret keeps an eye out and an ear to listen for us as the outsider.