The Line of Beauty
Edition: 5th printing
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London, UK
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 501
ISBN-13: 9780330436236
Copyright date: 2004
Description: It is the summer of 1983, and young Nick Guest, an innocent in matters of politics and 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, and their children, Toby and Catherine.

As the boom years of the mid-80s unfold, Nick becomes caught up in the Feddens' world, while also pursuing his own private obsession, with beauty - a prize as compelling to him as power and riches are to his friends. An early 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 brings into question the larger fantasies of a ruthless decade.
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Notes: UK edition