Jane Fallon on the secret to her 40-year relationship with Ricky Gervais
telegraph.co.uknovelist Jane Fallon. “I actually handed in a book for the first time and that was a big, strange kind of flood of confidence that I had… I think for a lot of women around that age – 45 onwards – you change a lot.
And for some people you get a lot more confident, and for others you lose it for a while. I think it’s a really interesting time.
And I also think, generally, it’s an age that we don’t look at enough. And you know, women my age have got a lot to say!” It’s a late spring morning and Fallon and I are in a Hampstead café, not far from the home she shares with her partner, comedian and cultural lightning rod Ricky Gervais, talking about her latest novel, Just Got Real.
Now 61, she cuts a tomboyish figure, dressed in a Marc Jacobs Peter Pan collar blouse, tucked into oversized Studio Nicholson boyfriend jeans; with her ashy-blonde hair scraped up into a top knot.
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