Alan Hollinghurst on The Line of Beauty

Date: Monday 8 August Time: 7.00pm Venue: Hall Two, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG Tickets: £9.50 Alan Hollinghurst will talk to John Mullan about his award-winning novel The Line of Beauty. Summer 1983. Nick Guest, a young outsider, moves into the Notting Hill household of the Fedden family – his fellow Oxford graduate Toby, Toby's bi-polar sister Catherine, their wealthy mother Rachel and her husband, ambitious Tory MP Gerald. In the heady boom years of the early 80s, Nick is seduced by the Feddens' world of money and privilege, and equally drawn to the freedoms and possibilities of metropolitan gay life. Through Nick's relationship with the super-rich Wani Ouradi, and the rising and falling fortunes of the Fedden family, the novel examines the wider political context of a greedy, ruthless decade – there is even a cameo for Margaret Thatcher herself – and the dark spectre of AIDS looms over the latter stages of the novel. Tickets are £9.50 online or £11.50 from the box office: www.kingsplace.co.uk Box Office: 020 7520 1490 To be the first to hear about our forthcoming events and featured authors sign up here to receive our regular monthly newsletter.