The book, set in the 1980's, begins when 20 year old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Tory MP Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel and their two children. As the Thatcher boom-years unfold, Nick finds his life altered by drugs, power and the rising fortunes of the family with which he is entangled.
"A classic of our times.The work of a great English stylist in full maturity; a masterpiece." - Observer
"Wonderful... almost unbelievably well-written. In its dazzling, very contemporrary way, the book is tragic.But it is also consistently funny" - Spectator