Matilda Condition:Good when she can escape her

when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister's recent death

Summers span decades

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A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse

Matilda Condition:Good when she can escape herMatilda Wormwood is an extraordinay child with thoroughly ordinary and rather unpleasant parents, who are contemptuous of their daughters prodigious talents. But underestimating Matilda proves to be a huge mistake, as they, along with her vile headmistress Miss Trunchbull, are soon to discover.