High Time

High Time is a novel about high stakes and high jinx set in the world of high art and finance. From the award-winning author of The Improbability of Love.

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.

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.

Reviews

"(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." ―Independent

"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" ―Publishers Weekly

"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." ―City AM

"An entertaining dissection of the very British obsessions with money, class and scandal... High Time is a lot of fun" ―Irish Times

Dimensions: 12.9 x 1.7 x 19.81 cm