Rothschild's debut optioned for TV

Hannah Rothschild’s Baileys Prize-shortlisted The Improbability of Love (Bloomsbury) has been optioned for television by Kudos, the producers of "Humans" and "Broadchurch".

The debut novel from writer and filmmaker Rothschild is the only British novel to have made the 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist. The book has also been shortlisted for both The Waverton Good Read Award and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and is currently a Waterstones Book of the Month.

Set in the London art world, the book follows a young woman who unwittingly buys a lost masterpiece in a second-hand shop, and becomes drawn in to a web of unscrupulous dealers and Russian oligarchs.

Kudos will work with Anonymous Content, the producers of the Oscar-winning "Spotlight" and "The Revenant" starring Leonardo DiCaprio, on adapting the novel.

The Improbability of Love is published in the UK and Commonwealth by Bloomsbury and has been translated into six languages. It is published in the US by Knopf.