, the second published novel by David Storey (1933-2017), appeared in the same year as his first,

(1960), and enhanced its author’s status as a significant postwar British novelist. It was in fact the first novel he wrote. According to his posthumously published memoir,

(2021), he had begun it eight years previously, “sitting on the lavatory – ‘How long are you going to be in there?’ – because there was no other place of privacy in the house” on the council estate where he then lived with his parents and two brothers (109). Eight years later, after Longmans had accepted

for publication, he rewrote it, “without looking at the original manuscript, in twenty-one days” and “it was immediately…

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Citation: Tredell, Nicolas. "Flight into Camden". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 15 February 2023 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=5118, accessed 26 November 2024.]