29 SEPTEMBER 1973, Page 5

Getting things wrong

Sir: The title of my novel reviewed by Mr Peter Ackroyd (September 15) is not A Woman of Courage, as listed and referred to, but A Woman of Character. Whether this error was Mr Ackroyd's or, as I rather imagine, that of the printer, it does give, in its absence of all irony, a curiously baffling impression. Oddly enough, it is not the first time I have had trouble on this head with the book, which was originally and, still to me, preferably called The Same Thing — a title that might perhaps have conveyed to Mr Ackroyd something more cogent than, to my regret, did A Woman of Character (or Courage ).

Julian Gloag 66 rue Regnault, 75013 Paris