Hannah Rothschild is an author, filmmaker, philanthropist, and businesswoman. Her first novel ‘The Improbability of Love’ was shortlisted for the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction and won the Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction. Her second novel ‘House of Trelawney’ was runner up for the Everyman Wodehouse. The first woman to chair London’s National Gallery, she was awarded a CBE for services to literature and philanthropy.
'(Rothschild's) brilliant new novel, High Time, is pure escapist satire. Once again set in the world of high art as well as high finance – both of which she lampoons with comic aplomb – the book reads like a thrilling fairground ride version of Downton Abbey.' * Independent * 'Over-the-top hilarious and a sharply satiric view of late-stage capitalism, this plays like a savvy cross between Brideshead Revisited and Succession as written by the Monty Python troupe' * Publishers Weekly * 'High Time - high style, high jinx. My kind of novel - intelligent escapism at its most satisfying' * Gyles Brandreth * 'High Time is a manically and magical wonderful romp, fast and furious in pace, style and extravagance' * Geordie Greig * 'The perfect summer read: mischievous and delicious. I devoured it in one go' * Miranda Cowley Heller * ‘One of the wittiest writers around’ * Good Housekeeping * ‘Something Nancy Mitford and Jilly Cooper might have cooked up’ * The Times * A 'funny, emotionally insightful, cracking paced thriller' * Julia Samuel * ‘An entertaining dissection of the very British obsessions with money, class and scandal... High Time is a lot of fun’ * Irish Times * ‘Blissful, escapist fiction… prepare to be entertained’ * Sainsbury's Magazine * PRAISE FOR HANNAH ROTHSCHILD 'Fun of this kind is irresistible' * Guardian * 'Rothschild is a witty, stylish storyteller and her overall message definitely feels timely' * Sunday Times * ‘Rothschild is a mischievous narrator and this story is pure pleasure from the word go’ * Stylist * ‘Sheer escapist bliss’ * Nigella Lawson * ‘Funny, sharply-observed and boho-chic glamorous’ * Daily Mail * ‘Imagine Evelyn Waugh meets Nancy Mitford, with some Jilly Cooper thrown in, and you have this splendid romp’ * YOU * ‘Pure joy’ * India Knight, Sunday Times *