![]() ![]() In Bennett’s plays, bookshelves often loom up to intimidate or overwhelm characters. His partner of 23 years, Rupert Thomas, is the editor of the World Of Interiors magazine and it shows – the room is a comfortable cave of 18th-century pictures, a mantelpiece loaded up with cards (one handmade in the shape of a red-soled grey shoe) and a wall lined with books: fat Pevsner architectural guides, the journals of Anthony Powell, Virginia Woolf and John Cheever, Claire Tomalin’s Thomas Hardy biography, and volumes on the history of blue-and-white china. We are talking in his front room in Primrose Hill in London. He still has that schoolboy mop of blond hair, and were it not for a little stiffness as he rises from his chair, and deep veins on his hands, you would take him for a much younger man. ![]() A lan Bennett, now 81, is as dapper as you like in knitted tie and red-soled grey suede shoes. ![]()
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