After falling ill while shopping in Harrods, Courteney spent the next six months living out a drama in which she claims to have become telepathic while pulsing with an intense healing energy. But her strongest, and most bizarre claim is that she was able to hear spirits from the higher realms, and she found herself communicating with none other than Diana, Princess of Wales.

Courteney's Divine Intervention certainly makes for a compelling and wholehearted read, full of drama and suspense and with a high dose of the thoroughly chilling. Diana, Princess of Wales is reported as speaking of life in the higher realms and of witnessing her own death and watching mourners visit her coffin; as well as explaining how she sends messages to Prince Charles and her sons, and that the reason she has made contact is because the spirit world can see that unless we change our lives and priorities the world as a whole is doomed. Further, it is she who insists that Courteney writes a book telling the world about the dangers that lie ahead and the way in which each individual can make a real difference.

All very strange indeed. But Courteney believes the story she tells is real, and her personal integrity cannot be doubted. As for the reader? Well, it may be necessary to suspend belief for the duration of Divine Intervention and a healthy scepticism would not go amiss, but there are nevertheless some thought-provoking home truths to be found regarding the way we live our lives, and what we can do to slow down the destruction of all that we hold dear.