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Literary Fiction · ThoughtfulA young gay man lodges with a Conservative MP's family in Thatcher's London
The Line of Beauty
2004400 pagesModerate readSteady pace
★ Booker Prize, 2004
A lodger in a Tory family in 1980s London
Nick Guest, a young graduate who loves art and beauty, lodges with the family of Gerald Fedden, a Conservative MP, in Notting Hill. The novel follows him through the 1980s, from his first love affairs to the arrival of AIDS. It won the 2004 Booker Prize and was adapted as a 2006 BBC series.
More about this book
Who
Nick Guest and the Fedden family.
World
London in the 1980s.
What makes it different
It sets private life against the politics of the Thatcher years.
Feel
Elegant and cutting.
Page count and cover shown for: Selected edition
Further reading
- The Line of BeautyWikipedia