Chatterley confession

sir – My brother surreptitiously bought his copy of Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Letters, May 5) as soon as it became readily available in 1960. Our parents would have been horrified, and my brother duly hid his much-thumbed copy in a locked box in his bedroom, with other precious items.

His guilty secret was exposed one night when a burglar broke in and stole the box. The police found it in the garden with everything missing apart from the book. My brother’s humiliation was complete when, in front of our mother, the police asked him to confirm that the book was his.

Nicholas Young

London W13

sir – Regarding Linda Read’s letter (May 5), I fear that it would now be the Enid Blyton book covered with the

Lady Chatterley’s Lover dust jacket.

Jonathan Mann

Gunnislake, Cornwall