Margaret Lee works in her father’s bookshop and prefers classic works such as Dickens and the Brontë sisters. She’s surprised when the famous writer Vida Winter offers her a chance to write her biography. Miss Winter is known not only for her books, but also for the fact that she never tells the truth in interviews.
Margaret goes to a grim manor to research the story of the twin sisters—one that is tied to her own life and the secret of “The Thirteenth Tale.”