“Yesterday or the day before, while I had been going about my business, quietly and in private, some unknown person—some stranger—had gone… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“What if the child’s dependence on her twin is so great that the separation causes a mental trauma such that the damaged… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“I was in a kind of no-man's-land, a place between places. The mind plays all sorts of tricks, gets up to all… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“I thought nothing. The surface of my mind was perfectly still. But under the surface there was a shifting and a stirring.… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“After a great many questions I eventually ascertained that he is suffering from some kind of disorder of the mind. Is there… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“They are more real than the books on the shelves, books that are sketched with the barest hint of a line here and there,… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books? — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“Yesterday or the day before, while I had been going about my business, quietly and in private, some unknown person—some stranger—had gone to the… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“But perhaps the answer is to stop writing altogether, for when I do write, even now as I write this very sentence, this very… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“He felt something move in his chest, as though an organ had been removed and something unfamiliar left in its place. A sentiment he… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
