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Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl by Donald Sturrock

For Roald Dahl the wheel of fortune just kept on turning. One minute flying high, an heroic RAF fighter pilot soaring through the clear air above the distant Earth. The next minute, crashed ignominiously in the desert, appalling injuries to his back that will plague his entire life. Another turn of the wheel and he is the tall, handsome, debonair diplomatic attaché in Washington, intimate with celebrities and President Roosevelt, seeing out the war in a round of parties and amateur espionage. Then he is plunged into despair in austerity England before being lionised in Hollywood, writing a script for

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