In 2018 she was made a Commander of The British Empire for services to literature and philanthropy. She's a vice president of the Hay Literary Festival, a former trustee of the Tate Gallery, and was the first woman chair of the National Gallery in London.
She's written for Vanity Fair, Vogue, The Independent, Elle, Bazaar, T and C, The Times, The Telegraph, the NYT and others. Her feature length BBC/HBO documentaries have appeared at such festivals as Telluride and Tribeca. In 2018 she was made a Commander of The British Empire for services to litera Hannah Rothschild is the author of House of Trelawney The Baroness: The Search for Nica, the Rebellious Rothschild and The Improbability of Love which was shortlisted for the Bailley's prize for womens' fiction and won the PG Wodehouse, Everyman, Bollinger prize for best comic novel in 2016. Narrated from Douglas’s endearingly honest, slyly witty, and at times achingly optimistic point of view, Us is the story of a man trying to rescue his relationship with the woman he loves, and learning how to get closer to a son who’s always felt like a stranger.Hannah Rothschild is the author of House of Trelawney The Baroness: The Search for Nica, the Rebellious Rothschild and The Improbability of Love which was shortlisted for the Bailley's prize for womens' fiction and won the PG Wodehouse, Everyman, Bollinger prize for best comic novel in 2016. And maybe going ahead is for the best anyway? Douglas is privately convinced that this landmark trip will rekindle the romance in the marriage, and might even help him to bond with Albie. Connie has planned a month-long tour of European capitals, a chance to experience the world’s greatest works of art as a family, and she can’t bring herself to cancel. Then Connie tells him she thinks she wants a divorce. A dusty, anonymous old painting catches her eye. 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.
Now, almost three decades later, they live more or less happily in the London suburbs with their moody seventeen year-old son, Albie. Finalist for the Baileys Womens PrizeAnnie McDee, thirty-one, lives in a shabby London flat, works as a chef, and is struggling to get by. Douglas Petersen may be mild-mannered, but behind his reserve lies a sense of humor that seduces beautiful Connie into a second date.and eventually into marriage.
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