In The Line of Beauty
The Booker Prize winning tale of life, love and obsession set against the greed and corruption of Thatcher’s decade of excess - the 80’s. Strangely touching and poignant, especially if you were around during those vacuous times.
“It’s 1983. Margaret Thatcher has just been reelected. The economy’s in ruins. AIDS hovers in the background. And 20-year-old Nicholas Guest, a naïve, gay, Henry James scholar about to start his doctorate, has just moved into the Freddens’ blissful Kensington Park Gardens mansion. And he’ll do just about anything to stay.”