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  • High Time

  • High Stakes and High Jinx in the World of Art and Finance
  • By: Hannah Rothschild
  • Narrated by: Maya Saroya
  • Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
  • 3.8 out of 5 stars (8 ratings)

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High Time

By: Hannah Rothschild
Narrated by: Maya Saroya
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Summary

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.

Chosen by The Irish Times and Tatler as a fiction highlight for 2023

©2023 Hannah Rothschild (P)2023 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Critic reviews

‘The perfect summer read: mischievous and delicious. I devoured it in one go.’ Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace

'Convulsively comic (and) sharply satiric' Publishers Weekly

‘Something Nancy Mitford and Jilly Cooper might have cooked up’ The Times

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Mediocre

The narrator's voice is good, however, the mispronunciation of some of the same words over and over again is very irritating.

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A highly engaging story which kept me listening

I really enjoyed the story and was rooting for the heroine -it took me a while to understand the ancillary characters and how they fitted in .
I think the end was a bit disappointing unless there is another book .

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