The Brickfield is a 1964 novel by the British writer L.P. Hartley.Birch & Drabble p.463 An elderly author dictates his memoirs, recalling his youthful years. It was followed by a sequel The Betrayal in 1966.
References
Bibliography Dinah Birch & Margaret Drabble. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. OUP Oxford, 2009.