The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst Groundswell Speaker 2024 She and her sister eke

She and her sister eke out a living by selling fraudulent spells to gullible buyers and conducting tours of Count Bastien Saphir's mansion - who killed three of his wives more than a century ago

female friendships and all-night parties of a dazzling city

Pick and Mix Poetry is filled with over 300 poems

with profiles of meat and fish - whose seasonality is often forgotten - woven through

The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst Groundswell Speaker 2024 She and her sister ekeOne of the New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Winner of the Man Booker Prize, The Line of Beauty is a classic novel about class, politics and sexuality in Margaret Thatchers 1980s Britain. 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