The Line of Beauty

Why You'll Love This

A gay man lodging inside Thatcher's Tory inner circle — Hollinghurst makes the irony as gorgeous as it is lethal.

• Great if you want: literary fiction with sharp class politics and queer history
• Listening experience: slow, luxuriant, melancholy — a long exhale across 17 hours
• Narration: Jennings navigates every English class register with surgical precision
• Skip if: you need plot momentum; this is atmosphere and observation

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