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High Time
High stakes and high jinx in the world of art and finance
Buch von Hannah Rothschild
Sprache: Englisch

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'One of the wittiest writers around' Good Housekeeping
'The perfect summer read: mischievous and delicious. I devoured it in one go.'
Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper PalaceWHEN 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, she's 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.'Reads like a thrilling fairground ride version of Downton Abbey' Independent'An entertaining and arch caper' Grazia 'Something Nancy Mitford and Jilly Cooper might have cooked up' The Times
'One of the wittiest writers around' Good Housekeeping
'The perfect summer read: mischievous and delicious. I devoured it in one go.'
Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper PalaceWHEN 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, she's 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.'Reads like a thrilling fairground ride version of Downton Abbey' Independent'An entertaining and arch caper' Grazia 'Something Nancy Mitford and Jilly Cooper might have cooked up' The Times
Über den Autor
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.
Zusammenfassung
Rothschild's second book, House of Trelawney was shortlisted for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize For Comic Fiction in 2020
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: 320 S.
ISBN-13: 9781526656858
ISBN-10: 152665685X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Rothschild, Hannah
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße: 241 x 162 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Hannah Rothschild
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.06.2023
Gewicht: 0,613 kg
Artikel-ID: 125824892
Über den Autor
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.
Zusammenfassung
Rothschild's second book, House of Trelawney was shortlisted for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize For Comic Fiction in 2020
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: 320 S.
ISBN-13: 9781526656858
ISBN-10: 152665685X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Rothschild, Hannah
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße: 241 x 162 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Hannah Rothschild
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.06.2023
Gewicht: 0,613 kg
Artikel-ID: 125824892
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