NEW YORK (AFX) - It was billed as the great "publishing event" of the fall -- "a shattering, provocative and mesmerizing true story" so momentous that booksellers ordered copies without knowing what they would receive.
Now, the secret is out: publisher William Morrow has confirmed to The Associated Press that the mystery work is Paul Burrell's "The Way We Were," the latest tell-all about Princess Diana by her former butler, who also wrote the 2003 best-seller, "A Royal Duty."
"The Way We Were" takes the reader into the lively day-to-day life at Kensington Palace and includes, for the first time ever, a uniquely personal record of that time, according to a statement issued Tuesday by Morrow.
"With previously unseen photographs of the interiors, Burrell takes the reader from room to room, and from memory to memory, in a remarkably candid narrative that only he could tell," the statement said.
Burrell's book, a "follow-up" to "A Royal Duty," goes on sale Sept. 12 with an announced first printing of 300,000.
William Morrow is part of News Corp.'s book publishing division, HarperCollins Publishers.
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