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High Time

Autor Hannah Rothschild
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 11 iul 2023
"A modern English comedy of morals and manners, about a highborn family of outrageous characters, in a story that proves revenge can be sweet. In the months leading up to the Brexit referendum, Ayesha, the beautiful, young secret daughter of the late Enyon Trelawney, has married the much older thuggish banker Tomlinson Sleet with whom she has a young daughter, Stella. Ayesha is busy restoring the once run-down Trelawney Castle in Cornwall, which Sleet has bought, to its former glory, as well as studying art at the Courtauld in London. The elderly Countess Clarissa-still ensconced on the property--the host of a camp television show, is about to head into a disastrous marriage. Lady Jane has separated from the hopeless Trelawney heir Kitto, who is crazier than ever, and found an enlightened woman to keep her company abroad. Sleet is becoming increasingly difficult, distracted by the seductive and ruthless bitcoin goddess Zamora, but Kitto's sister Blaze and her husband, Joshua, will support Ayesha's clever plan as she discovers shocking secrets, takes action, and brings the family together."--
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780593536582
ISBN-10: 0593536584
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 163 x 239 x 34 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Notă biografică

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 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. Her second novel, House of Trelawney, was a 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.

Caracteristici

Hannah Rothschild's debut The Improbability of Love sold over 130,000 copies. The joint winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction in 2016, it was also shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize that same year.

Recenzii

'Something Nancy Mitford and Jilly Cooper might have cooked up'
A 'funny, emotionally insightful, cracking paced thriller'
'(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.'
'An entertaining and arch caper'
'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'
'Blissful, escapist fiction. prepare to be entertained'
'A satirical comedy of manners on the ways business and finance interact - and is a whole lot of fun too. Wonderful and fanciful...High Time is fast-paced and high energy, but also contains moment of real sentiment. Hannah proves her deftness for wit and style in this Mitfordesque satire. High art hustles and Cornish castles, High Time is perfect escapist reading with real heart."
'The perfect summer read: mischievous and delicious. I devoured it in one go'
'A must-read for 2023'
'An entertaining dissection of the very British obsessions with money, class and scandal... High Time is a lot of fun'
'One of the wittiest writers around'
'High Time - high style, high jinx. My kind of novel - intelligent escapism at its most satisfying'
'High Time is a manically and magical wonderful romp, fast and furious in pace, style and extravagance'
'Biting and satirical, but also poignant and moving, High Time is a delicious story of madness, mayhem, and mischief run amok'
'Exuberant. revels in satirising English attitudes to class, cash and family scandal'
'A light and escapist tale ... with all the right ingredients'
'A delicious, riveting novel'
PRAISE FOR HANNAH ROTHSCHILD:
'Fun of this kind is irresistible'
'Rothschild is a witty, stylish storyteller and her overall message definitely feels timely'
'Rothschild is a mischievous narrator and this story is pure pleasure from the word go'
'Sheer escapist bliss'
'Funny, sharply-observed and boho-chic glamorous'
'Imagine Evelyn Waugh meets Nancy Mitford, with some Jilly Cooper thrown in, and you have this splendid romp'
'Pure joy'

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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, 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.

'Fun of this kind is irresistible' GUARDIAN