The Thirteenth Tale Condition:Good a venerable London publishing house

a venerable London publishing house located in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames

controlled by complex processes we scarcely understood

But what if that’s just the first step

through step-by-step projects from start to finish

and his daughter Lucrezia—in order to succeed

The Thirteenth Tale Condition:Good a venerable London publishing houseBiographer Margaret Lea returns one night to her apartment above her father's antiquarian bookshop. On her steps she finds a letter. It is a hand written request from one of Britains most prolific and well loved novelists. Vida Winter, gravely ill, wants to recount her life story before it is too late, and she wants Margaret to be the one to capture her history. The request takes Margaret by surpriseshe doesnt know the author, nor has she read any of