Multiple generations have inhaled his books in their childhoods. Amidst all that, Dahl casually wrote a string of children’s novels which revolutionised the genre.
He nearly died from burns following an RAF plane crash, and in 1962, he lost his seven-year-old daughter to measles encephalitis. The author’s short stories about his boarding school experiences make for horrendous reading. Still, few authors have as troubling personal backstories as Dahl does. His work has an irresistible appeal, and I must confess to still reading his fiction aged eighteen, having left primary school a long while ago. He is one of the most beloved authors of all time, and, in my view, rightly so. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.CW: sexual assault, discussions of misogynyįew authors in British culture have as wide a fanbase as Roald Dahl. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. In the black comedies of Switch Bitch Roald Dahl brilliantly captures the ins and outs, highs and lows of sex. In the middle, meanwhile, are "The Great Switcheroo" and "The Last Act," two stories exploring a darker side of desire and pleasure.
Topping and tailing this collection are "The Visitor" and "Bitch," stories featuring Dahl's notorious hedonist Oswald Hendryks Cornelius (or plain old Uncle Oswald) whose exploits are frequently as extraordinary as they are scandalous. In Switch Bitch four tales of seduction and suspense are told by the grand master of the short story, Roald Dahl. "Dahl is too good a storyteller to become predictable." -The Daily Telegraph
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