Winner of the Man Booker Prize Alan Hollinghurst&s The Line of Beauty is a classic novel about class politics & sexuality in Margaret Thatcher&s 1980s Britain It is the summer of 1983 & young Nick Guest an innocent in the matters of politics & money has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens Gerald an ambitious new Tory MP his wealthy wife Rachel & their children Toby & Catherine Nick had idolized Toby at Oxford but in his London life it will be the troubled Catherine who becomes his friend & his uneasy responsibility Innocent of politics & money Nick is swept up into the Feddens& world & an era of endless possibility all the while pursuing his own private obsession with beauty The Line of Beauty is Alan Hollinghurst&s Man Booker Prize-winning masterpiece It is a novel that defines a decade exploring with peerless style a young man&s collision with his own desires & with a world he can never truly belong to