Quotes from Diane Setterfield's books, and about them
The Thirteenth Tale on Jane Eyre: “My hand hovered instead over the old favorites: The Woman in White, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre… But it was no good.”
The Thirteenth Tale on Wuthering Heights: “My hand hovered instead over the old favorites: The Woman in White, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre… But it was no good.”
The Thirteenth Tale on The Castle of Otranto: “Not only Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Woman in White, but The Castle of Otranto, Lady Audley's Secret, The Spectre Bride.”
The Thirteenth Tale on The Turn of the Screw: “I understood the mysteries of Hester's wandering bookmark, the appearance of The Turn of the Screw and the disappearance of her diary.”
The Thirteenth Tale on The Water-Babies: “I have been like this ever since the age of seven when, sitting on a high wall and reading The Water Babies, I was so seduced by the descriptions of underwater life...”
The Thirteenth Tale on Hard Times: “Wuthering Heights ran into Emma, which gave way to The Eustace Diamonds, which faded into Hard Times, which ceded to The Woman in White.”