Dear Editor,

Your October 1992 issue gives commendable attention to Victor Kelleher, with a career overview by Andrew Peek, reviews by Terry Lane and Katharine England of Kelleher’s latest novel, Micky Darlin’, and an interview by Rosemary Sorensen. A writer of Kelleher’s stature deserves this. But ...

In the interview, Sorensen describes Beast of Heaven (1984) as Kelleher’s ‘second novel’. Ouch! Kelleher doesn’t bat an eyelid. Elsewhere, he speaks of his ‘kids’ books’. I cannot let this pass without comment.