 Her first novel, "Berg," was published by John Calder in 1964.It was influenced by Virginia Woolf, Anna Kavan and other female British modernists, as well as the French nouveau roman.Its opening line, 'A man called Berg, who changed his name to Greb, came to a seaside town intending to kill his father...' set the tone for a dark, psychological farce set in an unnamed seaside town that clearly resembles Brighton, which became the most critically acclaimed of her four novels.