High Time

‘The perfect summer read: mischievous and delicious. I devoured it in one go.’ Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper PalaceChosen by The Irish Times and Tatler as a fiction highlight for 2023WHEN 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.'Convulsively comic (and) sharply satiric' Publishers Weekly

'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', “High Time - high style, high jinx. My kind of novel - intelligent escapism at its most satisfying”, Funny, emotionally insightful, cracking paced thriller, High Time is a manically and magical wonderful romp, fast and furious in pace, style and extravagance, The perfect summer read: mischievous and delicious. I devoured it in one go

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.