Masterpiece: A Novel

Hannah Rothschild

Apr 2027 · Macmillan Audio

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From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Improbability of Love—a novel of love, defiance, and the enduring power of art, unfolding across five centuries in the shadow of Piero della Francesca’s The Resurrection.

Before dawn, a painter climbs his scaffold. His task is impossible: to depict a moment no human eye has witnessed—the Resurrection of Christ. What he creates in 1470 will come to be called the greatest painting in the world.

It will alter the course of many lives.

Mary Hutchinson enters the glittering world of the Bloomsbury Group —married, restless, and unprepared for the freedoms she begins to glimpse among Aldous Huxley, John Maynard Keynes, Virginia Woolf, and their circle.

In the Second World War, Captain Anthony Clarke clings to art as a form of resistance. In addition to the front lines, he faces more dangers: a love that cannot be named, and a choice that will define him.

Clarry Jones arrives in Sansepolcro to restore a damaged fresco, determined to keep to herself and her work. But she finds herself drawn elsewhere: into its history, its mysteries, and the lives it has shaped.

Five centuries. Four people. One painting. Hannah Rothschild’s Masterpiece is a captivatingly kaleidoscopic work, one that bears witness to the decisions that change us—and the radical, lasting power of art to provoke, to save, and to unite.

From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Improbability of Love—a novel of love, defiance, and the enduring power of art, unfolding across five centuries in the shadow of Piero della Francesca’s The Resurrection. Before dawn, a painter climbs his scaffold. His task is impossible: to depi...

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Hannah Rothschild is a novelist, biographer, documentary filmmaker, and philanthropist. Her biography, The Baroness (2012), tells the remarkable story of her great-aunt Pannonica de Koenigswarter, the Rothschild heiress who became one of the most influential patrons of twentieth-century jazz. Her debut novel, The Improbability of Love (2015), won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and was shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. It was followed by House of Trelawney (2020) and High Time (2023), both praised for their wit, warmth, and insight. Her fifth book, Masterpiece (2027), is an ambitious novel spanning five centuries, from Renaissance Tuscany to a contemporary art conservation studio in Sansepolcro. Inspired by Piero della Francesca’s Resurrection, it draws on years of research into unpublished letters, diaries and family archives. A lifelong supporter of the arts, Hannah has written for publications including The New York Times, The Times (UK), The Daily Telegraph, and Vogue. Her documentaries have been shown on the BBC, HBO, and at international film festivals. She was the first woman to chair the Board of Trustees of the National Gallery, London. She lives between London and Buckinghamshire and is particularly interested in art, history, conservation and the stories that connect the past with the present.

Hannah Rothschild is a novelist, biographer, documentary filmmaker, and philanthropist. Her biography, The Baroness (2012), tells the remarkable story of her great-aunt Pannonica de Koenigswarter, the Rothschild heiress who became one of the most influential patrons of twentieth-century jazz. Her...

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