The Line of Beauty

<p><b>Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books</b><br><br><i>There was the soft glare of the flash &ndash; twice &ndash; three times &ndash; a gleaming sense of occasion, the gleam floating in the eye as a blot of shadow, his heart running fast with no particular need of courage as he grinned and said, &lsquo;Prime Minister, would you like to dance?&rsquo;</i><br><br>In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the wealthy Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious Tory MP, his wife Rachel and their children Toby and Catherine. Innocent of politics and money, Nick is swept up into the Feddens&rsquo; world and an era of endless possibility, all the while pursuing his own private obsession with beauty.<br><br><i>The Line of Beauty</i> is Alan Hollinghurst&rsquo;s Man Booker Prize-winning masterpiece. It is a novel that defines a decade, ex