Untold Story - Monica Ali (2011)
The idea of the book is an interesting one. What if Princess Di didn't die in the Paris tunnel in 1987, but instead slipped away from a yacht, had some surgery and turns up in a small town in the US, looking after dogs at a kennel and living a quiet life.
It sounds like a good gremise for a plot, and somehow the author manages to make the story flat without any sparkle. Lydia as she is called just seems dull, and you wonder how her friends don't wonder if she could be the princess. Even with surgery one would imagine that the most photographed woman in the world could disguise the way she walks or her mannerisms.
I felt like I was being dragged through the book by my fingernails, waiting for something to happen. Not my ideal long weekend read - 2/5.
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