Love From Boy

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` Dear Mama, I am having a lovely time here. We play football every day here. The beds have no springs.. .` So begins the first letter that a nine-year-old Roald Dahl penned to his mother, Sofie Magdalene, under the watchful eye of his boarding-school headmaster. For most of his life, Roald Dahl would continue to write weekly letters to his mother, chronicling his adventures, frustrations & opinions, from the delights of childhood to the excitements of flying as a World War II fighter pilot & the thrill of meeting top politicians & movie stars during his time as a diplomat & spy in Washington. &, unbeknown to Roald, his mother lovingly kept every single one of them. Sofie was, in many ways, Roald`s first reader. It was she who encouraged him to tell stories & nourished his desire to fabricate, exaggerate & entertain. Reading these letters, you can see Roald practicing his craft, developing the dark sense of humour & fantastical imagination that would later produce such timeless tales as The BFG, Matilda, Fantastic Mr Fox & The Witches. The letters in Love from Boy are littered with jokes & madcap observations; sometimes serious, sometimes tender, & often outrageous. To eavesdrop on a son`s letters to his mother is to witness Roald Dahl turning from a boy to a man, & finally becoming a writer.