Sarah Bradford has set a high standard for the others to follow - Virginia Blackburn * Daily Express * Jeremy Lewis * Sunday Times Books of the Year *ĭiana is Sarah Bradford's excellent and authoritative new biography of the most extraordinary woman in recent history. Readers will find themselves gripped by this gloriously gossipy account. In this authoritative account, Bradford paints a revealing, accurate portrait of a complex woman flawed and adored in equal measure. Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd ISBN: 9780241980705 Number of pages: 496 Weight: 341 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 29 mm MEDIA REVIEWS certainly the first biography that approaches the events concerned with those fundamental prerequisites of the professional historian: an intrinsic scepticism towards sources an assumption that all major claims require corroboration and a conviction that there are at least two sides to every case.' - The Telegraph Sarah Bradford delivers an authoritative and explosive study of the greatest icon of the twentieth century: Diana.After more than a decade interviewing those closest to the Princess and her select circle, Sarah Bradford exposes the real Diana: the blighted childhood, the old-fashioned courtship which saw her capture the Prince of Wales, the damage caused by the spectre of Camilla Parker Bowles, through to the collapse of the royal marriage and Diana's final and complicated year as single woman.ĭiana paints an honest portrait of a woman riddled with contradictions and whose vulnerability and unique empathy with the suffering made her one of the most extraordinary figures of the modern age. *20th anniversary edition featuring a new afterword*

Diana by sarah bradford