Boy is Roald Dahl\047s extraordinary glimpse into his childhood and early life. \047An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. This is not an autobiography. I would never write a history of myself. On the other hand, throughout my young days at school and just afterwards a number of things happened to me that I have never forgotten ...\047 Boy is a funny, insightful and at times grotesque glimpse into the early life of Roald Dahl, one of the world\047s favourite authors. We discover his experiences of the English public school system, the idyllic paradise of summer holidays in Norway, the pleasures (and pains) of the sweetshop, and how it is that he avoided being a Boazer. This is the unadulterated childhood - sad and funny, macabre and delightful - that inspired Britain\047s favourite storyteller and also speaks of an age which vanished with the coming of the Second World War.