# Someone Like You

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/roald-dahl/someone-like-you/9780141189642

![Someone Like You](https://quivercdn.com/covers/penguin-classics/roald-dahl/someone-like-you_978-01-4118-964-2.jpg?v=2026-04-23%2012%3A42%3A50)

- Book: [Someone Like You](https://www.bookquiver.com/roald-dahl/someone-like-you) ([Someone Like You.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/roald-dahl/someone-like-you.md))
- Authors: [Roald Dahl](https://www.bookquiver.com/roald-dahl)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-964-2
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2009-12-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

These eighteen tales of the macabre show Dahl's dark brilliance as a short-story writer. They are wicked (as an old man attracts the attentions of those more interested in his skin than his wellbeing), shocking (as distasteful bets are made - a daughter's hand on the identity of a glass of claret, a finger risked for a Cadillac) and blackly humorous (as a cuckolded husband receives a chance to take his revenge out on his wife's neck). Someone Like You is as devilishly ingenious and suspenseful as writing gets.