25 NOVEMBER 2000, Page 36

A husband writes.. .

From Mr Tony Wilkinson Sir: I am appalled that an article Mid some- one say bitch?', 18 November) which pur- ports to do a hatchet job on my talented and charming wife, Lindsay Cook, blatantly pro- motes her latest book Working Mum: The Survival Guide (Simon and Schuster £6.99).

Does your correspondent James Hugh- es-Onslow have no shame? Is he, perhaps, one of her secret admirers? He claims to have been fired by her for cost-cutting rea- sons. This is not true. He was fired for incompetence. Is this another example?

He says he feels sorry for me and my two sons for having to live with a 'bossy, judg- mental, humourless, interfering and ulti- mately deeply confused' person. He may, I think, be mistaking us for his own wife and four children.

Tony Wilkinson

London Ni