About Matilda

When five-year-old Matilda arrives in her grandmother�s house she�s not sure what to expect. She never had a grandmother before. Or a grandfather. Or uncles. Her mother ran away so her father has brought Matilda and her sisters and brothers from Australia to live with his family in Ireland. At first it�s lovely in her grandmother�s, but it�s not long before everything goes wrong and Matilda and the others are on the move again. It seems that her heart�s desires - her mother, a home and a hug - are just too much to expect, and Matilda learns to make the best of things. Despite her father�s increasing craziness, and despite the half-understood secrets that haunt her, Matilda finds trust and affection in the most unexpected places. By the time she is sixteen Matilda realizes that the only way to get a life, is to claim it, and that means taking on her over-powering father � not just for herself, but for her whole family. About Matilda is warm and funny, heart-rending and startling, dignified and redemptive, a vivid novel about growing up told from the heart of a child.