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In 1929, when he was thirteen, Roald Dahl was sent to boarding school. You would expect him to get wonderful marks in English – but his school reports were not good!

EASTER TERM, aged 15. English Composition. ‘A persistent muddler. Vocabulary negligible, sentences malconstructed. He reminds me of a camel.’

 

SUMMER TERM, aged 16. English Composition. ‘This boy is an indolent and illiterate member of the class.’

There’s worse to come!