 She reveals her success in becoming a scholar and a Dickens expert and concludes her narrative by emphasizing the power of literature to offer escape and solace in the worst of times.Matilda becomes a teacher in Australia in order to fulfill her dream and educate people, but to also keep the memory of Watts alive.The novel was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2007; it won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for best book in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific and the Montana Medal for Fiction or Poetry and 2008 it won the Kiriyama Prize for books about the Pacific Rim and South Asia.