Prince Harry has suffered a bungee-jumping accident in Bali. Brought home with his to convalesce at Balmoral is an aid worker, Sister Julia. When she ignores protocol by greeting Prince William as if she's known him all her life, Julia raises the suspicions of scheming Equerry David Baron and his associate, Mrs MacDuff.

Prince Harry has suffered a bungee-jumping accident in Bali. Brought home with him to convalesce at Balmoral is an aid worker, Sister Julia, a plain-looking woman who excites mistrust and affection in equal measure at the Royal Family's Scottish home. When she ignores protocol by greeting Prince William at a lochside picnic as if she had known him all his life, Julia raises the suspicions of scheming Equerry David Baron, and his associate the vengeful housekeeper Mrs MacDuff. Part satire, part thriller, this skilfully wrought literary parody is a masterful critique of the Royal Family and the cult of Diana, Princess of Wales. With an underground following since serialisation in the Independent, Balmoral is a brisk and witty novella, with theft, intrigue and drug addiction, and a threat of tabloid scandal hanging over the castle like a ghostly twilight