Madam, – Why, when compiling lists of novels that deal with the Celtic Tiger of which there have been examples recently in your columns, has nobody mentioned Anne Haverty's The Free And Easy? Not only is it about the Celtic Tiger, but its comic elegance and deadly satire remind one of other recreations of a vanished era such as Evelyn Waugh's novels about the decadence of the 1920s. – Yours, etc,