About this title: Amateur biographer Margaret Lea receives a letter from reclusive author Vida Winter, summoning her to write Vida's life story. Up to this point, Vida has never given a true account of her life, toying with interviewers by inventing lutlandish life histories of herself. In her old age, she at last wants to tell the truth a bout her extraordinary ...
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Date Published: 2007
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Date Published: 2007
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Description: Very Good. Soft Back Angelfield House stands abandoned and forgotten. It was once the imposing home of the March family, Isabelle, Charlie her brutal and dangerous brother and the wild untamed twins, Emmeline and Adeline, but Angelfield House conceals a chilling secret.............................. read more
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Publisher: Orion Books
Date Published: 2007
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Date Published: 2007
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"I LOVE this book!!! It's a total page turner... once you start - you won't stop reading until you're done. I couldn't get enough of the mystery, the secrets, the past, the present --- interwined to make one of the best books I've ever read!!!! Highly recommended!!"
The truth is slowly revealed in this novel and that?s what keeps you mesmerized until the the thirteenth tale is finally told.
This is a story of writers, book lovers, and twins and of a beloved English novelist with a mysterious past and the lonely woman who is hired to write her life story.
It?s all here ? the secluded English estate with its lush gardens, and all the ghosts, past and present, who inhabit it."
Some must be told, there are few which is better to be kept as a secret. You might oh well some of you then might already know my story. It's such a big deal when I let my other half, Ophelia, to tell you our stories. But the thing is, she's my other personality. She exists mentally but not physically. I can talk to her all the time, yes yes people think I'm crazy when I'm muttering by myself though I've tried so hard not to say it outloud, but she's not physically there because she's not my twin sister.
Twins always attract attentions, did you ever notice that? And at least now I know (I should say I think I know) how does it feel when you lost your twin, it's like being cut a half and left to bleed. Dying. At some point, in your dying time, you're waiting for your twin to take you to her world. Or to the contrary when you're the passive one, the likes of Emmeline who let her twin torturing her all the time, suddenly able to fight back because now she has someone to protect from. I found it's really interesting.
And I hope you like ghost stories. No it's not the spooky ghost or those silly, disgusting ghosts you've seen in the Ghostbuster movie. But it refers to your past. Someone close or maybe it's yourself. At the end we have to face our ghosts. Vida did, Margaret does. What about you?
The key to this mistery of Angelfield family is Jane Eyre. I'll give you a clue, it's Mr. Rochester crazy wife. I encourage you to read this tale, the Thirteenth Tale of who's Vida Winter is actually.
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Semua orang punya cerita.
Beberapa di antaranya harus dikisahkan, tapi ada beberapa yang lebih baik disimpan untuk menjadi sebuah rahasia. Kau pasti pernah mendengar tentang kepribadian ganda, tapi kisah dalam buku ini sangat jauh berbeda dengan itu.
Kepribadian ganda tidak memiliki fisik, kehadirannya hanya secara mental tapi kembaran berbeda. Kembaranmu adalah bagian dari dirimu juga, tapi dia memiliki fisik dan bisa hidup sendiri.
Pernahkan dirimu menyadari betapa sepasang anak kembar selalu menarik perhatian orang lain di sekitar mereka? Aku dulu pernah sangat mengimpikan memiliki anak kembar, tapi tidak akan memakaikan pakaian yang sama atau menidurkan mereka di kamar yang sama. Lantas sekarang aku berpikir kembali apakah sebenarnya keinginanku itu lebih seperti ujicoba teori hubungan telepati anak kembar atas anak-anakku sendiri. Sekarang siapa yang lebih twisted coba, aku atau Ophelia yah?!
Kisah ini luar biasa. Tentang seorang penulis terkenal, Vida Winter, yang setiap diwawancarai tentang kisah hidupnya akan menceritakan salah satu dongeng ciptaannya tentang siapa dia. Hingga akhirnya seorang anak muda berkata, "Ceritakan padaku yang sesungguhnya!"
Dan Margaret pun datang untuk mendengarkan cerita Vida, menulisnya kembali di atas kertas-kertas sambil menambahkan catatan di sana sini. Kau tahu Margaret itu aneh, orang hidup tidak menarik perhatiannya karena dia menghabiskan terlampau banyak waktu dengan catatan-catatan yang ditinggalkan oleh orang-orang yang telah mati beratus tahun lalu! Tapi aku menyukainya. Aku menyukai karakter Margaret.
Margaret punya luka. Lukanya, hantunya, semuanya seolah kembali saat dia bekerja untuk Vida Winter. Ketika Vida menceritakan kisah tentang si kembar Angelfield, Adeline dan Emmeline yang walau resminya bermarga March tapi secara fisik lebih mirip paman mereka yang 'sakit', Charlie Angelfield. Tentang kebakaran yang mengubah hidup semua orang.
Dan ketika semuanya terbongkar, sekarang tidak penting lagi siapa yang terkubur di perpustakaan Angelfield itu. Apakah itu Adeline? Atau mungkin Emmeline? Atau si Hantu tak bernama.
Kau suka kisah hantu bukan? Tidak, ini bukan tentang hantu menakutkan seperti di film Jelangkung atau yang konyol dan menjijikkan di Ghostbuster the Movie ya tapi lebih mengacu pada hantu masa lalu. Pada akhirnya dalam hidup kita, dalam setiap kisah yang kita jalani, kita harus berhadapan dengan hantu kita masing-masing. Vida telah melakukannya, demikian juga Margaret. Mungkin sekarang waktunya bagimu dan bagiku."
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