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Colin Burrow: Dreadful Mr Dahl, 15 December 2022
Teller of the Unexpected: The Life of Roald Dahl, an Unofficial Biography
by Matthew Dennison.
Head of Zeus, 264 pp., £20, August 2022,978 1 78854 941 7 Show More
by Matthew Dennison.
Head of Zeus, 264 pp., £20, August 2022,
“... and the huge ‘official’ one by Donald Sturrock, which, while seeking to bring out the best in Dahl, doesn’t conceal his self-aggrandising side.Through the mid-1960s Dahl wrote film scripts, variously hacked about and supplemented by other hands, including the screenplay for the Bond movie You Only Live Twice. The marriage to Neal had become more ... ”