Mr. Dahl excels in describing awful stupid and nasty characters. There are wrong with the back of the spoon and do puzzles no taboo. The beasts and wicked people exist and they are close relatives of brute Matilda or Legourdin Melle. And amid these cruel humans in a little girl and a cute gifted schoolteacher. Written at age 72, two years before his death, the author signs one of his best books.
