Last surviver of the Bloomsbury Group? Meet David ‘Bunny’ Garnett, 1972

David ‘Bunny’ Garnett at 80: he said he had been the lover of ‘an enormous amount’ of women. Photograph: Chris Smith

In 1972, the Observer encountered one of a near-extinct species: Bloomsbury Group survivor writer David ‘Bunny’ Garnett, nearly perishing in the process, thanks to Garnett’s hair-raising driving. ‘“You drive with great imagination,” I said faintly,’ journalist Ruth Hall reported when Garnett collected her for an overnight stay at his cobwebby, dead-fly-infested French farmhouse.

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