Tomorrow night, the BBC screens the first episode of a three-part adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty, the Booker Prize-winning novel that evokes the spirit of fast living in London in the years of Thatcher.
It promises to be riveting television. There’s even a leader in The Guardian today praising the adaptation (but, he said pedantically, haven’t they got the hyphen in the wrong place in the phrase "Booker Prize-winning"?).

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