For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!

He began as a contributor for Encounter a cultural-literary magazine in 1963 and would eventually become a co-editor before terminating his relationship in 1970. The novel was converted into a play the next year. He spent his last years in Malta and died in Gloucestershire in July 1989.