Writer Morris 'remarries ' partner.

Darryl Livingston

04 June 2008

"One is I have written a post-mortem journal which I have already sold, I have got the advance but they will not pay me the rest. "That's one thing, the other thing is more touching and I haven't told this to anyone before.

"I have lived with the same person for 58 years. "So I needed to round this thing off nicely and last week, as a count of fact, Elizabeth and I went and had a civil union." Writer Presenter James Naughtie, who recounted on the Bookclub internet site that Morris's contribution brought a 'special excitement ' to the programme, congratulated the writer on air. Morris has been formerly named by The Times as the 15th largest Brit post-war writer.

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