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THE IMPROBABILITY OF LOVE is a romp, a joy, and an inspired feast of clever delights. 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
An entertaining dissection of the very British obsessions with money, class and scandal... High Time is a lot of fun' - Irish Times
THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF NICKY HASLAM
Rothchild's first novel, The Improbability of Love, was published in May 2015. [5] The story follows a female protagonist who comes across a lost Watteau and becomes embroiled in the dealings of the art world's elite. The Guardian said, "her depiction of the rarefied art world is gripping". The book was shortlisted for the Baileys Prize [6] and was joint winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize. It has been translated into more than twenty languages and was chosen as one of Waterstones "Books of the Year". Like a Rococo painting, this clever, funny, beguiling and wholly humane romance is a treat worthy of its subject.' The Independent
A Rothschild by birth and a Baroness by marriage, beautiful, spirited Pannonica – known as Nica – seemed to have it all: children, a handsome husband and a trust fund. But in the early 1950s she heard a piece by the jazz legend Thelonious Monk. The music overtook her like a magic spell, and she abandoned her marriage to go and find him.
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THE ROTHSCHILD FOUNDATION, registered charity no. 1138145". Charity Commission for England and Wales. Brown, Mark (8 December 2014). "Hannah Rothschild to become the first woman to chair National Gallery". The Guardian . Retrieved 10 July 2015. Nica met and married Baron Jules, and the couple had five children. She traveled with her husband overseas during the war. Nica loved listening to music, and it was during her travels in 1950’s she heard a sound (jazz music by a Monk) that “literally” called her- she was happy.
Unfortunately, Annie accepts a job as a private chef for a very powerful art dealer and all it’s not what it seems for the aging patriarch. He’s determined to do whatever it takes to cover his past in which his new chef plays a crucial role.One gets the sense that Rothschild is working on a series of novels, rather like Elizabeth Jane Howard’s Cazalet Chronicles, centring on different family members each time This is a fascinating and fun romp of aristocracy hitting hard times and creatively working through the financial crash of 2008. This modern-day Downton Abbey, full of family dysfunction and love, is just as addictive as the TV series.' Beth Gibbs, Library Journal She took over from her father Jacob as chair of Yad Hanadiv in July 2018. Yad Hanadiv is a charity Yad Hanadiv is dedicated to creating resources for advancing Israel as a healthy, vibrant, democratic society and equal opportunity for the benefit of all its inhabitants. It built the Knesset, the Supreme Court and in 2023 will complete the New National Library of Israel. The genius of this film is that it captures the bits in between to create an unforgettable portrait' Stephen Frears, The Evening Standard High Time’ opens in January 2016, six years after the closing of ‘House of Trelawney’ and again follows a number of interwoven stories centred on Trelawney Castle in Cornwall, where the Trelawney family have lived for eight hundred years. I won’t mention plot details as it’s far too easy to enter spoiler territory for ‘House of Trelawney’.
Hannah Rothschild has written a wonderful satirical novel about a rare French Painting.' Andrew Marr, Start the Week The painting becomes hers, and as it turns out, Annie has stumbled across a lost masterpiece by one of the most important French painters of the eighteenth century. But who painted this masterpiece is not clear at first. Soon Annie finds herself pursued by interested parties who would do anything to possess her picture. For a gloomy exiled Russian oligarch, an avaricious Sheika, a desperate auctioneer, an unscrupulous dealer among others, the painting embodies their greatest hopes and fears. In her search for the painting¹s identity, Annie will unwittingly uncover some of the darkest secrets of European history‹but also the possibility of falling in love again. Her feature length BBC/HBO documentaries have appeared at such festivals as Telluride and Tribeca. She's written for Vanity Fair, Vogue, The Independent, Elle, Bazaar, T and C, The Times, The Telegraph, the NYT and others. She's a vice president of the Hay Literary Festival, a former trustee of the Tate Gallery, and was the first woman chair of the National Gallery in London. In 2018 she was made a Commander of The British Empire for services to litera Hannah Rothschild is the author of House of Trelawney; The Baroness: The Search for Nica, the Rebellious Rothschild; and The Improbability of Love which was shortlisted for the Bailley's prize for womens' fiction and won the PG Wodehouse, Everyman, Bollinger prize for best comic novel in 2016.An eminently readable, well researched biography. It is one-third a history of the Rothschild family, one third a portrait of Nica, and one-third a biography of Monk. Nica comes across as a remarkable woman, strong, feisty and rebellious' Sunday Times Hannah Rothschild Steps Down As Chair of Trustees at London's National Gallery", Art Forum, 20 June 2019. Annie McDee, thirty-one and recovering from the end of a long-term relationship who is working as a chef and searching for a birthday present for her unsuitable new lover in a neglected London second-hand shop. Hidden behind a rubber plant on top of a file cabinet, a grimy painting catches her eye. Leaving the store with the picture after spending her meager savings, Annie prepares an elaborate birthday dinner for two, only to be stood up. Exuberant. revels in satirising English attitudes to class, cash and family scandal' - Mail on Sunday
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