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I always find it difficult to rate and evaluate biographies. I feel as if I would need to read two biographies of the same subject, side by side, to properly judge what use each had made of the life given to them.

Roald Dahl is a multi-dimensional subject, for sure, and even at nearly 600 pages I felt that many years and important matters in the man's life were left untold - or merely hinted at.

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The biographer Donald Sturrock makes it clear that Dahl's surviving children (Tessa, Theo, Ophelia and Lucy) were responsible for much assistance, but I felt that his relationships with not just them, but also his second wife Felicity ('Liccy') were handled very carefully - perhaps to the point of being too careful.

Above all, Sturrock emphasises Dahl's pleasure in being the paterfamilias - head of both his birth family (his own father died when he was a toddler), and the large family he created for himself. Generous but con