AS a thrifty northerner, I was appalled to learn that a return ticket from London to York costs £72. (Readers' Letters, LondonYork rail fare is so unfair, August 26). One would have to be really desperate to stand for it. Still, I feel that Karen Jolley has only herself to blame. What on earth made her book a return ticket?

William Dixon Smith, Welland Rise, Acomb, York.