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The Line of Beauty Condition:Well Read They contain a wealth ofIt is the summer of 1983, and young Nick Guest, an innocent in matters of politics and money, has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious new Tory MP, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their children, Toby and Catherine. As the boom years of the mid 80s unfold, Nick becomes caught up in the Feddens' world, while also pursuing his own private obsession with beauty a prize as compelling to him as power and