His Lovely Wife

When tall blond and beautiful Ellen Baxter enters the Paris Ritz the day before Princess Diana dies she's mistaken for Diana by the paparazzi. The next morning as Ellen's older Nobel-laureate husband attends a physics conference she goes to the site of the fatal crash and finds an uncharacteristic photograph of Diana. Surprised by how deeply the death has affected her Ellen pockets the photo. As she hears Diana's voice in her head and begins to understand the parallels between their lives she tracks down the person who took the photograph hoping that this man who deals in surfaces can penetrate her beauty as he did Diana's and help her love the woman inside. <p/><br>Elizabeth Dewberry's complex surprising novel uses string theory to weave together two women's lives and explore a culture that celebrates women for their beauty--then exacts a terrible toll.