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Hannah Rothschild is a writer, filmmaker, philanthropist and company director. Her biography of Pannonica Rothschild, The Baroness, was published in 2012. Her first novel, The Improbability of Love, won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for best comic novel and was shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. She writes original and adapted screenplays and also for major newspapers and magazines in the US and UK. Her documentary features have been broadcast on major networks and shown at film festivals. A non-executive director of various financial institutions and the former chair of London’s National Gallery, she lives in London with her three children.
If you're in need of a Succession replacement then this tale of a crumbling English dynasty clinging on to the past while coping with the fallout of the 2008 crash is for you. Rothschild is a mischievous narrator and this story is pure pleasure from the word go * Stylist * Praise for The Improbability of Love: 'A deliciously wicked satire ... A masterpiece * Daily Mail * Impishly wicked, ruthlessly frank, touchingly percipient and laugh aloud funny -- Rachel Campbell-Johnston * The Times * Ingenious * Mail on Sunday * Like a Rococo painting, this clever, funny, beguiling and wholly humane romance is a treat worthy of its subject -- Amanda Craig * Independent * Totally delicious -- Kate Saunders * The Times * Thrilling ... Staccato satire worthy of the pen of Evelyn Waugh * Daily Express * Her writing shows brain as well as heart * Economist * Reading this book is like a raid on a high-end pastry shop - you marvel at the expertise and cunning of the creations, while never wanting the deliciousness to end -- Elizabeth Gilbert It's mischievous, fun and on the money * Tatler * Hannah Rothschild is finally coming into her own ... Bound to be a bestseller -- Lynn Barber * Sunday Times * Every page is a joy. It's funny, sad, profound. The writing dances. It has panache. It's beautifully structured. It wears its scholarship with a balletic lightness and grace that shadows the Rococo painting at its heart. Its many and varied characters are an exquisite joy. Her range and emotional grasp is wonderful. What more can I say? It's my Book of the Year already -- Barbara Trapido A timely reflection on art's true value * Observer * What a delightful read - a satirical look at the world of art with some love, mystery and comedy thrown in for good measure * Radio 2 Book Club * An excellent and very funny debut * The Lady * Absorbing ... Rothschild cleverly has the painting itself tell part of the story and beautifully marshals a wealth of historical detail * Metro * A novel that is so pleasurable I've read it twice, and will read it again * Glasgow Sunday Herald * A bittersweet and highly enjoyable satire * Woman & Home * Part well-crafted mystery, part thriller, part love story, Rothschild's The Improbability of Love takes its readers on a wonderful journey into a rarefied world usually only experienced by the wealthy few * Jewish Chronicle * A capacious and fluently knowledgeable tale that excoriates with mischievously satirical intent the viciously competitive world of high-stakes art collecting ... Captivating ... Rothschild, the first woman to chair London's National Gallery, is a dazzling omniscient narrator giving voice to an irresistible cast of reprobates and heroes ... An opulently detailed, suspensefully plotted, shrewdly witty novel of decadence, crimes ordinary and genocidal, and improbable love * Booklist * A frolicsome art-world caper ... Ms. Rothschild writes with such exuberance and spins such a propulsive yarn * New York Times *
