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A recurrent word in the book is "complicity". This is not theatre but a video of complicity, as we linger over those moments of intimacy, fast-forwarding, pausing. If the camera rests on the outside of the bathroom door, we are made aware of the noises within. In the end, we hardly know what seems to
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book. Not only does it put the story of Diana in its proper historical context of
British politics, journalism and the changing mores of the past quarter century, but it is also a perfect example of the nosy-parker’s art. It conveys, better than anything I have ever read, the basic intelligence of
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But the best book on Diana is the newest, "The Diana
Chronicles"....She tells the story fluently, with engrossing detail on every page, and the mastery of tone which made her Tatler famous for being popular with the people it was laughing
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Intensely well researched and an un-put-downable read, Tina Brown's extraordinary book parts the brocaded velvet, lifts the expensive net curtains, and allows us an unprecedented look at the world and mind of the most famous person on the
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Nothing comes close to Tina Brown's book for its tight grip on the dark human comedy that was Diana's life and death. The result is a compulsively page-turning trip to the poisoned place where class met glamour and result was
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Like scraping barnacles off an old hulk, Tina Brown has taken the story of
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Diana's tragicomedy is
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British has to be explained.
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