He pictured Leo whizzing ahead and, and kept losing him in the gleams and shadows of the night traffic. The bus threaded down at last across the Harrow Road and began its long descent of Ladbroke Grove. He’s in a bus, following his boyfriend Leo who is cycling ahead: Here he is, heading to the Gate cinema on Notting Hill Gate to see Al Pacino in the garishly violent Scarface. The central character is Nick Guest, an innocent young aesthete who lodges in the exquisite Kensington home of a cocksure Thatcherite MP. The coming spectacle of a Conservative Iron Lady armed with a vast majority built from nostalgia and fear has lured me back to Alan Hollingurst’s novel The Line of Beauty, a prize-winning tale of gay sex, cocaine and invincible Tory swagger set in various places, including, most seductively for me, some evocative parts of 1980s London.
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