Matilda (by Roald Dahl)

(Amazon UK link) Last night, we watched the DVD of the 1996 film adaptation of Roald Dahl’s book ‘Matilda’. Despite it being set in the US rather than the UK, I was pretty sure that it kept fairly closely to the story. Not that it mattered much; the film was excellent. Even for people like us who are several decades older than the intended audience. 
This morning I decided to check a few pages of the book, wondering whether (as in the film) it started with Matilda as a newborn…
The book actually st...