High Time

Name: High Time
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781526656834
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High stakes and high jinx in the world of art and finance

By Hannah Rothschild

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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 Palace WHEN THE STAKES ARE HIGH, HOW LOW WILL YOU GO? Ayesha Scott has a perfect life. Home... Read More

Format: Paperback / softback

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Description

‘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 Palace

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.

‘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

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781526656834

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 June 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 242g

Pages: 320

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Fiction General Fiction Hannah Rothschild Literary Fiction

About the Author

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.

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