The Diary of Miss Idilia: A Tragic Tale of Young Love Lost is a book edited by Genevieve Hill.

It presents itself to be the original diary of a young girl who disappeared whilst on holiday with her parents in the German Rhineland in 1851.

Lying next to her skeleton is a diary in which she has recorded the horrors of her final days, after a wooden staircase collapses, leaving her trapped at the top of the tower without food or water.

[citation needed] In a review of the English edition for The Spectator, Andrew Taylor wrote 'even the most credulous reader wouldn't get too far here without smelling several large rats', citing the use of foreshadowing devices, anachronistic language, and the action-packed narrative.

For example, a nearby church is described having two towers, but one of them had already collapsed in 1844; Dubb mentions hearing the noise of a train, although the railroad through the Rhine-Valley was not built until 1859.