In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old nick guest moves into an attic room in the notting hill home of the feddens: conservative member of parliament gerald, his wealthy wife rachel, and their two children, toby-whom nic...In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old nick guest moves into an attic room in the notting hill home of the feddens: conservative member of parliament gerald, his wealthy wife rachel, and their two children, toby-whom nick had idolized at Oxford-and catherine, highly critical of her family's assumptions and ambitions.