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    May 14, 2024 3 minutes

    Diva

    Daisy Goodwin

    Bloomsbury 416pp (hb) £18

    Fictionalising the biography of a real-life person can be tricky, the obligation to respect historical truth potentially impeding creative freedom. But Daisy Goodwin has embraced the task with gusto, scrupulously researching Maria Callas’s life and vividly recreating the opera world of the 1950s and ’60s.

    It is the diva’s love life that is at the heart of this book: her marriage to the ponderous Meneghini and her obsession with the sleazy, opportunistic Onassis, the latter particularly

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