Hannah Rothschild

Hannah Rothschild was the first woman to Chair the board of London’s National Gallery. She is the author of an acclaimed biography, The Baroness, and three novels, including The Improbability of Love, which was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, was a Waterstones Book of the Year, and won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize. Drawing on her extensive knowledge, she has spent seven years researching unpublished diaries, letters, photograph albums and papers to tell this remarkable story. Masterpiece is the book she feels she has always been meant to write.