How wonderful to read the latest This is how we do it column (11 January). When I was hawking my latest novel, now thankfully in print, around agents and publishers, I was told that the subject matter, specifically older people enjoying vibrant sex lives, was too implausible and unrealistic. I am glad that Elizabeth and Alfred, both in their 90s, have proved them all wrong.
Vesna Main
London
• Your interviewee who vowed to renounce Greggs sausage rolls if they went up to £1.50 must avoid the branch in Derby train station, where I recently paid £1.60 (Greggs boss defends price hikes amid anger over cost of sausage roll, 9 January).
Prof Dominic Regan
Bath
