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Suppose Diana did not die in a car crash in Paris in 1997, but sick and tired of her life in the tabloid fishbowl, devised a “little plan” to disappear: while vacationing on a boyfriend’s yacht, she would take an early morning swim and never return; the world would assume she had drowned or been eaten by sharks, and she would be free to reinvent herself abroad.
This is the hypothesis that Monica Ali sets forth in her potboiler of a new novel, “Untold Story.”
She lived in “a permanent state of crisis,” he recalls, “conducted at an unbearable level of scrutiny, in the toxic and highly flammable stratosphere of fame.” Although Lydia worried about the effect her disappearance would have on her two young sons, Lawrence adds, she somehow didn’t accept “the loss of her boys as permanent,” deluding herself that she could somehow, some way, make contact with them once she’d made a new life for herself in America.