. . "In 1971 (or 1980-something, when the book was reissued) you can not buy 12 penny buns for 5p...And f you have updated the book to set it in (at the earliest) the early 70s, then you need to update the vocabulary so people are not listening to the wireless, so that people other than the vicar and the doctor have cars and telephones, and so on...I had bought my own copy of a much loved book and it was a" . . .