The "mean and loathsome" Mrs Pratchett, owner of the sweet shop Dahl frequented as a boy in Cardiff, inspired Dahl's creation of Miss Trunchbull.[12] Mr Wormwood was based on a real-life character from Dahl's home village of Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire.[13] The library in Great Missenden was the inspiration for Mrs Phelps's library, where Matilda devours classic literature by the age of four and three months.[14] On Matilda's love of reading books, Lucy Dahl stated that her father’s novel was, in part, about his love for books: "I think that there was a deep genuine fear within his heart that books were going to go away and he wanted to write about it."[15]
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