Lucy Mangan

The child is father of the man

In a correspondence lasting 40 years, the unshockable Sofie Magdalene delighted in her son’s gory anecdotes from his schooldays onwards

issue 25 June 2016

  • Love from Boy: Roald Dahl’s Letters to his Mother

    Edited by Donald Sturrock

    John Murray, pp. 336

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