Roald Dahl's Letters to Mom

Roald Dahl's penchant for the macabre in his adult short stories make them some of the most haunting and chilling of 20th-century English literature. It even made its mark, albeit a lesser one, in what he wrote for children, the best known of these being Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. So it is unsurprising to find it not altogether absent, particularly in the earlier parts of this collection of the letters he wrote faithfully to his mother from his days at boarding school, beginning aged nine in 1925 and continuing until shortly before her death more than four decades later.