Publisher's Synopsis
When five-year-old Matilda arrives at her Granny's house she's not sure what to expect. Her mother ran away, so her father has brought Matilda, and her sisters and brothers, from Australia to live with his family in Ireland. It's lovely at her granny's, but soon everything goes wrong again... Despite her father's increasing craziness, and the half-understood secrets that haunt her, Matilda does find trust and affection in unexpected places. At sixteen, Matilda realizes that the only way to get a life is to claim it, and that means taking on her overpowering father - not just for herself, but for her whole family.
