Another Reason to Hide Under Dan Stevens’ Bed

The 2012 Man Booker Prize shortlist is out!

Cousin Matthew is on the judging panel, but that doesn’t mean it will necessarily go to the nice lady from Manchester, Alison Moore. She must first engage in a spirited fight to the death with Hilary Mantel, Jeet Thaylil, Deborah Levy, Tan Twan Eng, and Will Self.

Because CONNECTIONS, Dan Stevens also starred in a British adaptation of Hollinghurst’s own Booker Prize-winning novel The Line of Beauty, in which he clearly swam in a pool, but has not yet* starred in an adaptation of Hollinghurst’s superb The Swimming-Pool Library, which is even sexier.

*Yet.