Hannah Rothschild

Broschiertes Buch

House of Trelawney

Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize For Comic Fiction

Beschreibung

'Imagine Evelyn Waugh meets Nancy Mitford, with some Jilly Cooper thrown in, and you have this splendid romp ... Hilarious, escapist bliss' YOU'Delights from start to finish' Mail on Sunday'Irresistible' Guardian'Sheer escapist bliss' Nigella Lawson'Pure joy' India Knight, Sunday TimesShortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize For Comic FictionThe Earls of Trelawney have inhabited the same castle for 800 years - but recent generations have been better at spending than making money. Now living in isolated penury, unable to communicate with each other or the rest of the world, the family are running out of options. Three unexpected events will hasten their demise: the sudden appearance of a new relation, an illegitimate, headstrong, beautiful girl; an unscrupulous American hedge fund manager determined to exact revenge; and the crash of 2008.Deliciously escapist and gloriously funny, House of Trelawney is a novel about family and forgiveness, chaos and crisis - and finding yourself in the most unexpected ways.

Autor

Hannah Rothschild is a writer, filmmaker, philanthropist and company director. Her biography of Pannonica Rothschild, The Baroness, was published in 2012. Her first novel, The Improbability of Love, won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for best comic novel and was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. She writes original and adapted screenplays and also for major newspapers and magazines in the US and UK. Her documentary features have been broadcast on major networks and shown at film festivals. A non-executive director of various financial institutions and the former chair of London's National Gallery, she lives in London with her three children.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing / Bloomsbury Trade
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 403062
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 132mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 257g
• ISBN-13: 9781526600653
• ISBN-10: 152660065X
• Artikelnr.: 60095405

Rezensionen

This is Jilly Cooper territory, with a whiff of Joanna Trollope; a lavish saga about privileged people behaving badly The Times

If you're in need of a Succession replacement then this tale of a crumbling English dynasty clinging on to the past while coping with the fallout of the 2008 crash is for you. Rothschild is a mischievous narrator and this story is pure pleasure from the word go