![]() The mother, Mabel Taylor, is “half dead with exhaustion”, out of her mind with worry because the baby girl will hardly take any milk. The plot involves a married couple who have just had a long-awaited child. As a child my knowledge of bees was basic, so the story had a new fascination now that I’m a beekeeper. One of the books there happened to be Kiss Kiss, so I got it out specially to read Royal Jelly again. This week I was in the Barbican Library near my work and stopped to check out the returned shelves. My mum had both his Kiss Kiss and Switch Bitch collections and I re-read them quite a few times as a child, including the story Royal Jelly. If you’ve ever read Roald Dahl’s short stories for adults, you’ll know they’re very different in tone to his more famous children’s books.
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