Hannah Rothschild

Masterpiece is Hannah Rothschild’s best novel by far. Brilliantly researched, it is a multi-period story which is both moving and convincing

Masterpiece is just wonderful. There's a generosity and scope to this novel that expands the heart and fills the mind. It's one of those books that you can't wait to talk about with friends. Three very different stories weave their way through three centuries, each one showing that art and love - and the courage to be different - really matter. The characters crackle on the page and take up residence in your head. It's dextrous, vivid and wise: a tonic and a celebration. My book of the year.

I love Rothschild's cleverness, wit and heart,  and this is the book she was born to write.

What gives the novel its power is the human depth beneath the art. Rothschild is acutely attentive to the fragile, often contradictory inner lives of her characters—ambition braided with vulnerability, intellect shadowed by grief, love constrained by invidious laws. Even as the narrative delves into the rarefied world of art, it never loses sight of the emotional stakes that make that world matter. Masterpiece is also a fast-paced, addictive page-turner, as gripping as the finest whodunnit

TUSCANY, 1470: in the bright light of a new day, an artist lies awake, imagining a fresco that will shape his future and echo down the centuries. 
 
1922: A member of the Bloomsbury Group writes to her secret lover about a painting that changed her life; she believes it will change his too. 
 
1944: A British army captain is ordered to bomb a Tuscan hill town. Inside it hangs a painting said to be the greatest ever made. To save it, he must disobey orders, risking his career and even his freedom. 
 
2014: A young conservator arrives in Sansepolcro to restore Piero della Francesca’s Resurrection, and discovers she must preserve not only the painting but also the stories of those who saved it. 
 
Drawing on real letters and unpublished diaries, this is the true story of four people who risked love and even their lives for one great masterpiece.

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Masterpiece is Hannah Rothschild’s best novel by far. Brilliantly researched, it is a multi-period story which is both moving and convincing

Masterpiece is just wonderful. There's a generosity and scope to this novel that expands the heart and fills the mind. It's one of those books that you can't wait to talk about with friends. Three very diff ...

I love Rothschild's cleverness, wit and heart, and this is the book she was born to write.

Masterpiece is Hannah Rothschild’s best novel by far. Brilliantly researched, it is a multi-period story which is both moving and convincing

Masterpiece is just wonderful. There's a generosity and scope to this novel that expands the heart and fills the mind. It's one of those books that you can't wait to talk about with friends. Three very diff ...

I love Rothschild's cleverness, wit and heart, and this is the book she was born to write.

Masterpiece is Hannah Rothschild’s best novel by far. Brilliantly researched, it is a multi-period story which is both moving and convincing

Masterpiece is just wonderful. There's a generosity and scope to this novel that expands the heart and fills the mind. It's one of those books that you can't wait to talk about with friends. Three very diff ...

I love Rothschild's cleverness, wit and heart, and this is the book she was born to write.

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