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A Piece of Cake (A Roald Dahl Short Story)

A Piece of Cake (A Roald Dahl Short Story)

Summary

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of A Piece of Cake by Roald Dahl, read by the actor Julian Rhind-Tutt.

In this short story, Roald Dahl tells the horrific tale of a pilot whose plane crashes in the desert.

A Piece of Cake is taken from the short story collection Over to You, which includes nine other dramatic and terrifying tales of life as a wartime fighter pilot, and is drawn from Dahl's own experiences during the Second World War.

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Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl was a spy, ace fighter pilot, chocolate historian and medical inventor. He was also the author of Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG and many more brilliant stories.
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