High Time: High stakes and high jinx in the world of art and finance

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The perfect summer read: mischievous and delicious. I devoured it in one go. Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace Chosen by The Irish Times and Tatler as a fiction highlight for 2023 WHEN THE STAKES ARE HIGH, HOW LOW WILL YOU GO Ayesha Scott has a perfect life. Home is an art-filled Cornish castle with her stratospherically wealthy, titled husband and their beloved daughter. But behind every realised dream lurks an unexploded nightmare and in the course of one day Ayesha discovers that she will be penniless, homeless and powerless unless she can outwit the international mafia, infiltrate the world of high finance and make backstreet deals with the shadiest members of the art world. Hurt and betrayed, shes determined to fight for herself and her daughter but can she do it without enlisting the help of her beloved, deeply eccentric but estranged family Sharp escapist fiction, High Time is a novel about high stakes and high jinx set in the world of high art and high finance. Fun of this kind is irresistible - GUARDIAN

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Praise for House of Trelawney: If youre 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 House of Trelawney: Fun of this kind is irresistible * Guardian *
Rothschild is a witty, stylish storyteller and her overall message definitely feels timely * Sunday Times *

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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 Womens 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 Londons National Gallery, she lives in London with her three children.