The Otterbury Incident
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The book receives a brief mention in Autobiography:
"The year 1970 is loutish stoops in studlike gear, shuddering catchphrases and racist television comedies of half-wit mispronunciations; Ruffle Bars and T-Bars, and my parents are neither friends nor lovers to one another, and nothing in our lives is tidy or designed. With a detachable head, I paddle my own way through it all. As my parents clash on every subject, Jackie takes sides and cries in between. I make several bolts for freedom clutching only The Otterbury Incident. First, I run to Lostock, where Jeane and Johnny now have their own flat, but I am in the way here, too, and Johnny promptly hitches me onto the crossbar of his bicycle and takes me back home – all along Barton Road, a journey of days, and how I sat there throughout can only indicate the hardiness of the times."
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The Otterbury Incident is a novel for children by Cecil Day-Lewis first published in 1948 by G. P. Putnam's Sons in the UK and in the USA in 1949 by Viking Press. In both cases the illustrations were by Edward Ardizzone.