My Lady Love, My Dove (A Roald Dahl Short Story)

Oct 26, 2024 10:29 PM

Author:Roald Dahl

My Lady Love, My Dove is a short, sharp, frightening story from Roald Dahl, the master of the shocking tale.

In My Lady Love, My Dove, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells a sinister story about the darker side of human nature. Here, a game of cards between two couples is the basis for some shocking deceit . . .

My Lady Love, My Dove is taken from the short story collection Someone Like You, which includes seventeen other devious and shocking stories, featuring the wife who serves a dish that baffles the police; a curious machine that reveals the horrifying truth about plants; the man waiting to be bitten by the venomous snake asleep on his stomach; and others.

'The absolute master of the twist in the tale.' (Observer)

This story is also available as a Penguin digital audio download read by the great Richard Griffiths.

Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.

Reviews

Fairy tales reimagined for feminist times

—— Grazia

She was, among other things, a quirky, original, and baroque stylist, a trait especially marked in The Bloody Chamber - her vocabulary a mix of finely tuned phrase, luscious adjective, witty aphorism, and hearty, up-theirs vulgarity

—— Margaret Atwood , Observer

Magnificent set pieces of fastidious sensuality

—— Ian McEwan

She can glide from ancient to modern, from darkness to luminosity, from depravity to comedy without any hint of strain and without losing the elusive power of the original tales

—— The Times

The Bloody Chamber is such an important book to me. Angela Carter, for me, is still the one who said: ‘You see these fairy stories, these things that are sitting at the back of the nursery shelves? Actually, each one of them is a loaded gun. Each of them is a bomb. Watch: if you turn it right it will blow up.’ And we all went: ‘Oh my gosh, she’s right—you can blow things up with these!’

—— Neil Gaiman , Daily Telegraph

A wonderfully written book, ironical, cerebral, elegant . . . distinguished by bold, inflected language and ornate, indeed often bloody, imagery

—— Joyce Carol Oates , New York Times Book Review

The Bloody Chamber's interweaving of retold fairy tales demonstrates Angela Carter's narrative gift at its most mocking and seductive

—— Observer

Extraordinary and beautiful

—— Peter Redgrove

Colours and landscapes are evoked in language that, at once lush and direct, is in itself a pleasure and a reminder that Malouf is also a poet of considerable talent

—— Aamer Hussein , Independent

His writing here has a fine descriptive delicacy and sensory exactness that act as guarantees of the stories' truth and the authenticity of the experiences they embody

—— Tom Deveson , Sunday Times

Malouf deals with both the vast and the seemingly unimportant... He does it with biting wit, elegance and a rare, uncluttered honesty

—— Chris Dolan , Saturday Herald

Poignant and wonderful story...concentrates, without effort, all Malouf's themes...it needs to be read

—— Prospect

Julian Barnes reminds us what an exhilarating experience it can be to read a really good critic.

—— Jane Shilling , Sunday Telegraph

A compulsive page-turner.

—— Tim Adams , Observer

Barnes’s passion for his writers is infectious.

—— Ion Trewin , Sunday Express

Blissfully intelligent.

—— Roger Lewis , Financial Times

The temptation to turn away is powerful, but the rewards for resisting it are considerable. These essays combine a scholarly breadth of knowledge with a powerful sense of the absurdities of the creative life.

—— Jane Shilling , Sunday Telegraph

Through the Window is a wonderful and very interesting collection of essays that rewards close, and also measured, reading.

—— Brendan Wright , Nudge

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