Jonathan Osmond (Letters, THES, December 3) has misremembered Lucky Jim. The joke about desirable regions of London appears not once but twice in the novel. Just as there is a passage concluding "No, not Chelsea" so there is one that ends "No, not Bloomsbury".
Tom Arden
Novelist and former lecturer in English, Queen's University, Belfast
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