![]() ![]() Throughout the novel Nick keeps his two lives separate - his coke-snorting, vibrant and experimental sex life, a far cry from his more restrained role as the foppish, Henry James obsessed, aesthete meandering his way through life. Through head of the house, Gerald Fedden, a newly-elected Tory MP, Nick is exposed to a class of powerful, greedy and very wealthy people, with whom he mixes selectively and schmoozes indiscriminately. Nick is originally called upon to provide company for Toby’s manic depressive sister, Catherine, while the rest of the family holiday abroad but this, almost unconsciously, becomes a long term arrangement. The aptly named Nick Guest, son of a modest antiques dealer, is thrust into the world of power, luxury, and money when he is invited to stay at the Notting Hill home of university pal, Toby Fedden. ![]() The Line of Beauty (2004) provides a perspective on 1980s Britain through the eyes of a young Oxford graduate who is coming to terms with his latent homosexuality. ![]()
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