Then an idea comes to Mabel’s husband, Albert. This baby is eating so little that at six weeks old she weighs two pounds less than she did at birth. 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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