The release date for the English version of 'The Line of Beauty' by
Alan Hollinghurst is Jan 2004. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Summer 1983: Nick Guest, then twenty years old, moves into an attic room in the Feddens' Notting Hill home. Gerald Feddens is a conservative member of parliament, along with his wealthy wife Rachel and their two kids, Toby (who Nick had looked up to at Oxford) and Catherine (who is very critical of her family's goals and presumptions).
Nick, an outsider in the world of politics and finance, discovers that his life is changed by this opulent family's increasing wealth as the eighties boom years come to a close. Nick finds the search of beauty to be just as appealing as his colleagues' quest for wealth and power. His two dramatically different love adventures, one with a young black clerk and the other with a Lebanese billionaire, illustrate the risks and pleasures of this personal quest.
A significant piece of writing by one of our greatest authors, this U.K. bestseller is richly nuanced, emotionally powerful, and disarmingly funny.