Boy: Tales of Childhood

By Roald Dahl

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Children's Books

Roald Dahl insisted that Boy is not an autobiography but a set of vivid memories from his early years, and the 1984 book reads as a string of episodes rather than a single story. He recalls a childhood in Wales after his father's early death, summers on a Norwegian island, the Great Mouse Plot against a sweetshop owner, beatings at English boarding schools and testing chocolate bars for Cadbury as a pupil at Repton, ending as he leaves to work for Shell.

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