24 NOVEMBER 2007, Page 21

I raised a 3 A.M. Girl

Sir: Unlike Rachel Johnson, I was delighted to introduce a daughter as a 3 AM. Girl (Can anyone be a writer now?', 17 November). Jessica was one of the three 'founding sisters' of the Daily Mirror column, stayed on it for five years, and then produced Wicked Whispers, an hilarious account of celebrity-bashing recently published by Michael Joseph.

I would have been far less enthusiastic in introducing her as a Guardian headbanger whingeing about the environment or, worse, wasting her time writing mind-numbing features for the Independent that would be read by three people in Notting Hill.

Paul Callan London, SW1