![]() Perhaps he wanted the emphasis to remain on the witches? ![]() I’d love to know why Dahl left them nameless, when all of his other books, featuring child heroes, are named after these brave children. The other characters in the book have names – such as the ever-hungry glutton Bruno and the wickedest witch of them all – The Grand High Witch. Interestingly, the two main characters are anonymous – referred to simply as The Boy and Grandmother. Until I came to write this review, I hadn’t really noticed that the boy narrator didn’t have a name. However, it soon becomes clear that rather than protect children, their aim is to rid England of them forever. While they stay at the Hotel Magnificent, the boy comes across a strange group of women, allegedly from the RSPCC (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children). ![]() When the boy and his grandmother go to England, so the boy can attend school, his grandmother becomes ill and the doctor recommends a period of recuperation by the sea in Bournemouth. After the death of his parents, a boy moves in with his grandmother in Norway, where he hears tales and warnings about child-hating witches and what they do to the children they come across. ![]()
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