{"product_id":"love-from-boy-9781444786286","title":"Love from Boy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA revelatory collection of letters from the nation's favourite storyteller.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove From Boy\u003c\/i\u003e, in all its cunning unreliability, becomes more fascinating the more you think about it. It is a work of showmanship, written for someone to whom the author would always be a child. As the backdrop to one of the world's greatest children's writers, it's so wonderfully complicated you'd have thought even Dahl couldn't have made it up. Except that he did - Daily Telegraph\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSturrock's carefully chosen letters, complemented by a judicious selection of biographical and photographic material, testify to a bond between mother and son that is unbreakable, even in the face of boarding school, war and sexual jokes about Hitler - The Times, Book of the Week\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSturrock is right to claim that the letters to his mother show, in embryo, essential features of Dahl's art, such as his fantastical imagination and his sadistic sense of humour - Sunday Times\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Dahl sense of thrill, mischief, and storytelling is ever present in these missives, even in the most trying of times. But what is most refreshing is a famous, busy, peripatetic son devoting so much time to staying in touch with 'Mama'. This alone makes him a national treasure - Psychologies\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is in Roald Dahl's childhood correspondence that we see charming glimpses of his future subjects - FT","brand":"John Murray Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739253420375,"sku":"9781444786286","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781444786286.jpg?v=1720051650","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/love-from-boy-9781444786286","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}