For the first time in Russian — 'The Thirteenth Fairy Tale' Diana Setterfield is a recognized masterpiece of modern English prose, a book that opened the genre of 'neo—Gothic' to the general public and forced Anglo-American critics to talk about the return of the golden age of the British novel, fanned by the names of Charlotte and Emily Bronte and Daphne Du Maurier. The debut novel of a modest teacher, the rights to which were bought for unprecedented money for a novice author (800 thousand pounds for a British edition, a million dollars for an American one), overtook the bestsellers of recent years in sales, was instantly translated into several dozen languages and was awarded the honorary name of the "new Jane Eyre" by reviewers.Margaret Lee works in her father's second-hand bookshop. She prefers Dickens and the Bronte sisters to modernity. Margaret is all the more surprised when she receives an offer from the most famous writer of our days, Vida Winter, to become her biographer. After all, no less than her books, Ms. Winter is famous for not having told a single interviewer a single word of the truth. And now, before Margaret, who finds herself in the walls of a gloomy mansion inhabited by ghosts of the past, the Gothic story of the twin sisters unfolds in the literal sense of the word, which strangely echoes her personal story and gradually leads to the solution of the mystery that drove many generations of readers crazy - the mystery of the 'Thirteenth Fairy Tale'...