![]() ![]() ![]() It is a novel that defines a decade, exploring with peerless style a young man's collision with his own desires, and with a world he can never truly belong to. The Line of Beauty is Alan Hollinghurst's Man Booker Prize-winning masterpiece. Innocent of politics and money, Nick is swept up into the Feddens' world and an era of endless possibility, all the while pursuing his own private obsession with beauty. In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the wealthy Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious Tory MP, his wife Rachel and their children Toby and Catherine. There was the soft glare of the flash - twice - three times - a gleaming sense of occasion, the gleam floating in the eye as a blot of shadow, his heart running fast with no particular need of courage as he grinned and said, 'Prime Minister, would you like to dance?' ![]() With an introduction by Sebastian Faulks, The Line of Beauty is a classic novel about class, politics and sexuality in Margaret Thatcher's 1980s Britain. Adapted by award-winning writer Andrew Davies from Alan Hollinghursts Booker Prize-winning novel, this three-part saga is set during the hedonistic 1980s and stars a mix of new, young talent and established names. ![]()
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