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I haven't read many autobiographies but even then I feel that this was a completely different take on what an autobiography should be. Fun and witty, Roald Dahl really manages to take the reader on a ride through his childhood and early adult days and shows a realistic picture of what it was like growing up in England in the early 20th century. I loved how the book is interspersed with his personal photographs taken with his family and in his different schools and well as the letters he writes home to his mother and the witty nicknames he kept for his step sister and brother (ancient half-sister and not so ancient half brother😄). Through this book he also shares his point of view on some of the not so pleasant punishment practises in public schools in those days like getting thrashed by a cane, fagging, etc. and includes a chapter on his Head Master at Repton who besides being a Head Master, was a clergy man too and loved using this punishment practice which did create a lot of doubts and questions in the young Roald Dahl's mind about some 'men of God' not practising what they preached.