The Improbability of Love, Hannah Rothschild
The Improbability of Love, Hannah Rothschild
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The Improbability of Love
A Novel

Author: Hannah Rothschild

Narrator: Adam James, Kristin Atherton

Unabridged: 18 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/28/2023

Categories: Fiction, Romance, Humorous


Synopsis

Finalist for the Baileys Women's Prize

Annie McDee, thirty-one, lives in a shabby London flat, works as a chef, and is struggling to get by. Reeling from a sudden breakup, she's taken on an unsuitable new lover and finds herself rummaging through a secondhand shop to buy him a birthday gift. A dusty, anonymous old painting catches her eye. After spending her meager savings on the artwork, Annie prepares an exquisite birthday dinner for two—only to be stood up.

The painting becomes hers, and Annie begins to suspect that it may be more valuable than she'd thought. Soon she finds herself pursued by parties who would do anything to possess her picture: an exiled Russian oligarch, an avaricious sheikha, an unscrupulous art dealer. In her search for the painting's identity, Annie will unwittingly discover some of the darkest secrets of European history—and the possibility of falling in love again.

About Hannah Rothschild

Hannah Rothschild is the author of The Improbability of Love and The Baroness: The Search for Nica, the Rebellious Rothschild. She is also a film director whose documentaries have appeared at such festivals as Telluride and Tribeca. She has written for British Vanity Fair, Vogue, the Independent, and the Spectator, and is vice president of the Hay Literary Festival, a trustee of the Tate Gallery, and the first woman chair of the National Gallery in London. She lives in London.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrew on April 22, 2024

Hannah Mary Rothschild was born into British nobility. As daughter of the 4th Baron Rothschild, himself a member of a renowned banking family, she was surrounded by wealth and privilege from birth. And art too, lots of art. In 1985, she became chair of the London National Gallery's Board of Trustees......more

Goodreads review by Regina on June 14, 2021

How amazeballs would it be to buy a painting in a secondhand shop for mere pounds and then discover it’s worth millions?! That’s the premise that drew me to The Improbability of Love, but unfortunately pretty much everything else about the book repelled me. Rather than focusing on the artwork’s intri......more

Goodreads review by Susan's Reviews on February 21, 2025

It's a rich man's world...! I didn't want this entertaining dramedy to end! I laughed, I gustily sighed, and then watched in horror as the lovable but "love-broken" heroine, Annie McDee, got totally shafted by one of the many ruthless antagonists in this riveting race to the art auction-house moneypo......more

Goodreads review by Mac on November 29, 2015

Wanted: An editor to transform an excellent premise into a good novel. Your task: Leave the Prologue (mostly) untouched; it's a good beginning, setting the stage and stimulating the reader's curiosity. A record breaking auction with multiple competing interests foreshadows that drama, suspense, and i......more