The Line of Beauty
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So the 1980s were one long orgy of champagne and shoulder pads? What about the riots, poverty and bombings?
Jane HarrisJane Harris: Which 1980s did you live through? Dole queues, nuclear angst and parachute pants? Or the Big Bang, Bollinger and ... parachute pants? We'll see one take on the decade next month, when the BBC broadcasts an adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst's novel The Line of Beauty.Forever Eighties
The 1980s was the decade that turned Britain upside down. Overnight, recalls Tim Adams, his fellow students put on shiny suits and started talking about money instead of Marx. As the novel that best captures the Thatcher years comes to television, he looks back on an epoch of twisting loyalties and stark oppositions.
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