The author’s final book records his observations of the Buckinghamshire countryside alongside memories of childhood hijinks
From the badgers lining their “deep winter quarters” with dry leaves to the larch woods making “great splashes of golden flame”, Roald Dahl’s vision of November is laid out in his last book: a diary of the author’s year that has been republished for the first time in 20 years.
My Year, which Dahl wrote shortly before his death in 1990, has been out of print since 1998. Packed with illustrations by Quentin Blake, it deals with everything from the changing seasons to the pranks he pulled as a child on unsuspecting passers-by, moving through the months of the year as Dahl documents the flora and fauna around his house in Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire. The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre has collaborated with Penguin Random House and the Roald Dahl Story Company to bring the book back into print.
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