The Line of Beauty
A young gay man lodges with a Tory MP's family and mistakes proximity to power for belonging.
Nick Guest, a middle-class graduate with a thesis on Henry James, lodges with the family of a rising Conservative MP through the Thatcher years, and mistakes being tolerated for being included. Hollinghurst writes money, aesthetics and gay life in the shadow of AIDS with the same unhurried precision, and the class comedy sharpens into something colder. It won the Booker Prize in 2004.
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