Boy

Boy is Roald Dahl’s extraordinary glimpse into his childhood and early life.

‘An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. This is not an autobiography. I would never write a history of myself. On the other hand, throughout my young days at school and just afterward a number of things happened to me that I have never forgotten . . .’

Boy is a funny, insightful, and at times grotesque glimpse into the early life of Roald Dahl, one of the world’s favorite authors. We discover his experiences of the English public school system, the idyllic paradise of summer holidays in Norway, the pleasures (and pains) of the sweetshop, and how it is that he avoided being a Boazer.