The Camembert among the hairbrushes

From The Fly, by Richard Chopping (1965) post by Brad Bigelow.  Bigelow is chasing down a book, The Fly, from 1965 which he has seen referenced in an intriguing way.  First he finds some of the old reviews which are reasonably scathing.  I especially liked this one from The Sunday Times:

Rarely have the filthy, petty particularities of loneliness — the Camembert among the hairbrushes, the menace of a tattered usherette — been give such a thorough going-over.