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Aspects of bohemian love

The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Aspects of Love returns to the West End for a 12-week run in May, starring Michael Ball.

But who was the extraordinary man who wrote the romantic novel of tangled love affairs on which the musical is based? This was David Garnett, always known as Bunny. Born in March 1892 and the only child of publisher's reader Edward Garnett and Constance (née Black), who translated many Russian novels into English, Bunny led a highly tangled love life of his own.

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