Called by the publisher an omnibus volume containing Kiss, Kiss, Over To You, Switch Bitch, Someone Like You, and eight further tales of the unexpected.

Great stuff, sometimes fairly dark. War's impact on Dahl is quite present, but mostly just people stories. Quite English, quite good, never pretentious.

This is a 160-page collection of short stories, set in postwar rural England. The same likable characters appear throughout, in various aspects of village life which (by 1950) hadn't changed much for centuries. Poaching, farm life, scheming a la Fred Flintstone or Ralph Kramden but (!) believable - it's a good bet these stories aren't far from some actual truths. Some of them are very good. The style is similar to Mortimer's.