House of Trelawney

'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 Times

Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize For Comic Fiction

The 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.

Imagine Evelyn Waugh meets Nancy Mitford, with some Jilly Cooper thrown in, and you have this splendid romp

Autorentext
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.