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Elderly, well-loved author Vida Winter commissions Margaret Lea to record her biography in this gothic mystery. Bianca Amato is stunning as Margaret, who is coming to terms with the truth of her own life as she slowly unravels the facts of Ms. Winter's. Amato's respect for the power of story and the written word is heard in every utterance. Jill Tanner accomplishes a tour de force as the enigmatic and mysterious Vida. In conversation her voice has the hesitancy and fragility of an elderly woman, but her voice takes on the strength and power of a master storyteller as she weaves her spellbinding life story. An author interview is icing on the cake. N.E.M. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine