I’ve been trying to read more queer novels lately, whether they be young adult, general fiction, romance. He wondered if anyone knew – had even a flicker of a guess, an intuition blinked away by its own absurdity.’ The deep connection between them was so secret that at times it was hard to believe it existed. ‘The pursuit of love seemed to need the cultivation of indifference. 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 wealthy Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious Tory MP, his wife Rachel and their children Toby and Catherine.
Richly textured, emotionally charged, disarmingly funny, this is a major work by one of our finest writers.Having read Alan Hollinghurst’s most recent novel ‘The Sparshot Affair’ and throughly enjoying it, I found out this is his most loved book and couldn’t resist when I saw it in the shop. (front flap)įramed by the two general elections that returned Margaret Thatcher to power, The Line of Beauty unfurls through four extraordinary years of change and tragedy. Richly textured, emotionally charged, disarmingly funny, this is a major work by one of our finest writers. An affair with a young black clerk gives him his first experience of romance, but it is a later affair with a beautiful millionaire that will change his life drastically and bring into question the larger fantasies of a ruthless decade.įramed by the two general elections that returned Margaret Thatcher to power, The Line of Beauty unfurls through four extraordinary years of change and tragedy.
In an era of endless possibility, he finds himself able to pursue his own private obsession with beauty-a prize as compelling to him as power and riches to his friends. It is the summer of 1983, and twenty-year-old Nick Guest has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby-whom Nick had idolized at Oxford-and Catherine, highly critical of her family's assumptions and ambitions, who becomes both a friend to Nick and his uneasy responsibility.Īs the boom years of the mid-eighties 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.
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