Dear reader, be you small or big, a dreamer or an adventurer, an artist or an inventor, you have to understand that a person who has accompanied you from early years of joy and bliss into tumultuous moments of adolescence and past into austere and mature adulthood is a writer who is also a human being. One who has chosen to show you his secrets and his life behind the curtain of writing. Putting aside his ideas and his words that enchant a world, he has decided to narrate in a familiar and relaxed tone his adventures from early childhood to maturity. His journey will reveal you some amazing confidences, that ultimately define him as a person and more especially, as the author you got to discover under the name of Roald Dahl. Through the blizzards of Norway into the desert of Africa, from the clouds of England to the sea of the Mediterranean, he embarks us on a quest on intimate proportions, gathering facts and feelings in a collection of days that sum up his early life. It is a scrumdiddlyumptious read!