 The coroner recorded an open verdict.Quin is associated with a loosely constituted circle of 'experimental' authors in Sixties Britain, headed by B. S. Johnson and including Stefan Themerson, Rayner Heppenstall, Alan Burns and Eva Figes, influenced by Samuel Beckett and recent French fiction (Marguerite Duras, Alain Robbe-Grillet).They stood in opposition to the dominant tendency for social realism, manifest from John Osborne and John Wain to Karl Miller's "Writing in England Today" (Penguin, 1968).