The first biography of David Garnett goes beyond stereotype and
myth and presents a clear sighted account of this often
contradictory figure at the centre of literary London in the era of
the Bloomsbury Group. Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize
for best biography 2016 Book of the Year 2015 Sunday Times Book of
the Year 2015 Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2015
Evening Standard Book of the Year 2015 New Zealand Listener
Shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2015
Literary Sensation, Lover, Libertine, Family Man Award-winning
novelist and towering figure of the 20th century British literary
landscape, David Garnett was a Bloomsbury insider ultimately pushed
to the margins. In this, the first biography of Garnett, (known as
Bunny), author Sarah Knights - who has had unprecedented access to
Garnett's papers - goes beyond stereotype and myth to present a
clear sighted account of this often contradictory figure. Trained
as a scientist, Garnett worked as a novelist and wrote exquisite
prose. Lady into Fox was made into a Rambert ballet and Aspects of
Love into an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. In the First World War,
he was a conscientious objector whereas in the Second he worked for
British intelligence. A free love enthusiast, he nevertheless
married. He loathed literary criticism but became a leading
literary critic. Born into the Victorian period, Garnett's life
spanned two World Wars, the Swinging Sixties and beyond. From
pre-Revolutionary Russia, by way of Indian Nationalists in London
and carefree Neo-Paganism, Garnett's early life was packed with
adventure. Propelled by a desire to be constantly in love, he
dazzled men and women, believing the person mattered, irrespective
of gender. An overnight literary sensation in the 1920s he was at
the centre of literary London. Confidante and mentor of many
writers, T. E. Lawrence, Rupert Brooke, D. H. Lawrence, Joseph
Conrad and H. G. Wells, were among his friends. Garnett felt most
at home with the Bloomsbury Group, in particular with Vanessa Bell
and Duncan Grant, his lover, with whom he lived during the First
World War. Their long friendship was threatened, however, when
Garnett's cradle-side prophecy to marry their daughter Angelica
came true. David 'Bunny' Garnett is brought to life by Ben
Lloyd-Hughes and Jack Davenport in the BBC series 'Life in
Squares'.
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