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    Audiobook15 hours

    Diana

    Written by Sarah Bradford

    Narrated by Katherine Kellgren

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    From The New York Times-bestselling author of America's Queen and Elizabeth- the definitive biography of Diana, Princess of Wales.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateSep 26, 2006
    ISBN9781429585767
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    Diana
    Author

    Sarah Bradford

    Sarah Bradford is a historian and biographer. Her previous books include Cesare Borgia, Disraeli, Princess Grace, George VI, Splendours and Miseries: A Life of Sacheverell Sitwell, Elizabeth: A Biography of Her Majesty the Queen, America’s Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and Lucrezia Borgia.

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    • 5/5
      I used to think that the Diana's life was pretty simple: she got married to a prince, divorced 11 years later, then got killed in a car crash in Paris.This book showed me that everyone's lives, including Diana's, is a lot more complicated and that there are always more than meets the eye.When I finished this book, it shattered every hope I might have had - the hope that life could been a fairy tale if I should ever marry a prince.This book showed me that we should be careful what we hope for.I feel pretty sorry for all the characters involved in the story of Diana. Hers was a typical Greek tragedy.I liked the quote in the book, "Whom the gods love, die young."That quote couldn't have said it better.
    • 3/5
      This was an OK, book, that had some problems, and that could have been so much more.The tone of the writing sucked you right in, and the mostly evenhanded treatment received by all was very good. Unfortunately there wasn't much new, and some seemed to be inaccurate (compared to other books). The book starts with Diana's early life, which has been done to death, even though it is the basis for understanding her personality. What the book didn't do, and it seems odd in a book that has been timed to coincide with the 10 year anniversary of her death, is to look at those 10 years. It doesn't deal much at all with the death and the funeral, or the aftermath. While serious evaluation will have to wait for more time to pass, a 10 year evaluation would seem to be the purpose of the book. Instead it just ends with her burial on the island.There are also horribly worded passages that in some places are incomprehensible. Finally there is what I consider to be trickery employed with the sourcing of the information. Bradford will say a 'Family Member' says X. But while she is explaining about X she has long passages of narrative, and many names. Then she seems to come to the end of X and then she adds another comment, but you are not sure if its from the Family Member, or one of the people in the explanation of X that said it. So it is often very hard to tell who is saying what and who is the source. Some of that feels deliberate, as though Bradford has something she wants to get in, but can't admit who said it, or she doesn't know who said it. In either case not good practice for a reputable biography writer.That leads to the many anonymous sources that provide the information for the book. While it is understandable that people don't want to be identified, there should then be some caution about what they are saying, and why. That caution is almost entirely absent from the narrative. It attempts to give the impression that the writer is part of the same set, and so knows whether or not to trust these people and their tales. All it does for me, is raise questions about the author, and the validity of some of her information.