Manderino Library Book Club--November 2007 Selection

“Margaret Lea, a bookish loner, is summoned to the home of Vida Winter, England's most popular novelist, and commanded to write her biography. Miss Winter has been falsifying her life story and her identity for more than 60 years. Facing imminent death and feeling an unexplainable connection to Margaret, Miss Winter begins to spin a haunting, suspenseful tale of an old English estate, a devastating fire, twin girls, a governess, and a ghost. As Margaret carefully records Vida's tale, she ponders her own family secrets. Her research takes her to the English moors to view a mansion's ruins and discover an unexpected ending to Vida's story. Readers will be mesmerized by this story-within-a-story tinged with the eeriness of Rebecca and the willfulness of Jane Eyre. The author skillfully keeps the plot moving by unfurling a new twist in each chapter and leaves no strand untucked at the surprising and satisfying conclusion. A wholly original work told in the vein of all the best gothic classics. Lovers of books about book lovers will be enthralled.” Kaite Mediatore, Booklist, 9/1/2006, pp. 58-59.

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Fellow Readers:

The next meeting of the Manderino Library Book Club will be on Wednesday, November 28, 2007, at 7:00 p.m. We will meet in library classroom #208.
Elizabeth Mason, a Cal U professor of psychology, will lead our discussion on Diane Setterfield’s The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel.

As always, give me a call if you have any questions.

Marsha L. Nolf
Public Services Coordinator/Associate Professor
Louis L. Manderino Library
California University of Pennsylvania
250 University Avenue
California, PA 15419
724.938.4048
nolf@cup.edu