At last! Like many people, I grew up reading Roald Dahl, and George's Marvellous Medicine was my favourite of his books. I have not read it for decades. It's never in the shops! Every time I wander into a bookstore and remember Dahl, it's always Matilda in the children's section, or Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Good books both, but George was my favourite. I was in a secondhand bookstore yesterday, and had a quick look for Dahl just in case, and there it was! I snatched it up. I finally read it again today, and it's still my favourite. Grandma's a horrible bitch, but it was the mash-up between science experiment and cooking up terrible potions on the stove which made my sciencey, baking-mad self like this as a child, and nothing has changed in that respect. (I read this today while a meringue layer cake was in the oven.)

Nice one, George.