[1] It asks what would have happened if Diana, Princess of Wales had not died in a car accident in Paris in 1997 but had arranged for her own disappearance and tried to live an undiscovered life in a small American town.

[2] In the novel, Princess Diana is portrayed in fictional form as an English expat named Lydia.

[3][4] The story is told through a combination of third person narrative, diary entries of the princess's former personal secretary, Lawrence Standing, and letters written by Lydia.

[5] Ali claimed in 2022 that one critic called it 'a curious marriage of author and subject matter'.

[6] On The Omnivore, a British aggregator of press reviews, the book received an "omniscore" of 2 out of 5.