The Line of Beauty

<p><b>I can’t explain it. I can’t explain any of it to you. The line of beauty which led me to him… to here.</b><br><br>London. Summer, 1983.<br><br>Nick Guest moves into the grand Notting Hill home of his university friend Toby — and into the dazzling world of Toby’s father Gerald, a newly elected Tory MP, his elegant wife Rachel, and their troubled daughter Cat. From private gardens to country estates, glittering parties to political dinners, Nick is swept up in a world of money, power and privilege. A world that promises everything — and exacts a cost.<br><br>As he pursues beauty in all its forms, Nick finds himself caught between the freedoms of desire and the rigid boundaries of class, sexuality and public image in a rapidly changing Britain.<br><br>Olivier Award nominee Jack Holden’s (<i>Cruise</i>; <i>Kenrex</i>) new adaptation of <i>The Line of Beauty</i> is a captivating portrait of Thatcher’s Britain at its most decadent and divisive, based on the Booker Prize-winning novel by Alan Hollinghurst.<br><br>This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere production at the Almeida Theatre in October 2025.</p>