And he's not entirely closed off about it. He's a postgraduate student lodging with the family of a member of parliament. In early 1980s London, Nick Guest walks an interestingly fine line. Richly textured, emotionally charged, disarmingly funny, it is a major work by one of the finest writers in the English language."-BOOK JACKET. Thatcher to power, The Line of Beauty unfurls through four extraordinary years of change and tragedy. An affair with a young black council worker gives him his first experience of romance but it is a later affair, with a beautiful millionaire, that will change his life more drastically and bring into question the larger fantasies of a ruthless decade." "Framed by the two general elections which returned Mrs.
In an era of endless possibility, Nick finds himself able to pursue his own private obsession, with beauty - a prize as compelling to him as power and riches are to his friends. "As the boom years of the mid-80s unfold, Nick, an innocent in matters of politics and money, becomes caught up in the Feddens' world - its grand parties, its surprising alliances, its parade of monsters both comic and menacing. Nick had idolized Toby at Oxford, but in his London life it will be the troubled Catherine, the critic and rebel of the family, who becomes both his friend and his uneasy responsibility."
"It is the summer of 1983, and young Nick Guest has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious new Tory MP, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their children Toby and Catherine.
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