Two wrongs don't make a right.

It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.

I asked my mum, who's a very clever psychotherapist, and she says that kids love stories about death; they need it, they need to have stories that deal with death and explain it, as a place to put their fears.

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.

Of course they're real people. They're Oompa-Loompas...Imported direct from Loompaland...And oh what a terrible country it is! Nothing but thick jungles infested by the most dangerous beasts in the world - hornswogglers and snozzwangers and those terrible wicked whangdoodles. A whangdoodle would eat ten Oompa-Loompas for breakfast and come galloping back for a second helping.

I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca.

...there are no secrets unless you keep them to yourself, and this was the greatest secret I had ever had to keep in my life so far.