Diane Setterfield

Diane Setterfield is an English author whose debut novel, The Thirteenth Tale, was published in 2006 and became a New York Times No. 1 best-seller. Written in the Gothic tradition with echoes of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, it won her the 2007 Quill Award for debut author of the year. She followed it with Bellman & Black in 2013 and Once Upon a River in 2018, a mystery that is also a study of storytelling. Setterfield lives in Oxford.