The Baroness
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Published on Dec 02, 2014 | 304 Pages
Published on Dec 02, 2014 | 304 Pages
Beautiful and spirited, Pannonica Rothschild, known as Nica, was born in 1913 to eccentric privilege and a storied family history. After marrying well, she settled into a French chateau to bear children and support her husband’s war career. But when Nica heard “Round Midnight” by jazz composer Thelonious Monk, everything changed. She abandoned her marriage, found Monk in New York, and devoted herself to him and to other musicians, becoming the unsung philanthropist of the city’s Jazz scene.
Hannah Rothschild has given twenty years to the quest of revealing who her great-aunt really was. Drawing on unpublished archival material, private family records and her own interviews, she has produced a fascinating portrait—part musical odyssey, part love story—that showcases a woman ahead of her time who dared to live as she wanted.
Author
Hannah Rothschild
HANNAH ROTHSCHILD is the author of The Improbability of Love, House of Trelawney, as well as a biography, which have been translated into more than seventeen languages. She has directed and produced documentary films for the BBC, PBS, and HBO. At the Queen’s 2018 Birthday Honours she was made a CBE for services to the arts and philanthropy, and in 2021 was elected to the American Academy of the Arts.hannahrothschild.com
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