Sometimes when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny.
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Politeness. Being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.
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Birth: | 22nd August, 1964 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Novelist |
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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