The short answer is no.. There is no legal radio you can use without a license to go that distance..
However there are a couple of exceptions. In a real emergency, anyone can use any frequency to call for help, so if you have the radio, you can use it, no license required.
Secondly, A tech license is easy to get. Literally you just have to spend a week or so running through the practice test, and you will pass the real one, given by your local hams. You don’t really need more than a vague understanding of the jargon or theory to pass. Once you have that you can get one of the local hams to help you set up your cheap baofeng (available from Amazon). Naturally, everyone in your family that will be carrying a radio will need to be licensed.
Once you have that, most areas have one or more repeaters near enough to boost your signal so you can communicate over your metro area. These are set up and run by your local ham clubs or private operators.
She will need something more (and more expensive!) than the average Baofeng to reliably signal 40 miles.
(Though one might do it very serendipitously now and then, under the precise right conditions.)
re: “There is no legal radio you can use without a license to go that distance..”
Stay out of everyone’s way and use a digial mode like JS8CALL or MS-DMT or Olivia (found in FLDigi app), and moreso if you use 13.560 MHz (+-7 kHz or so) which is an ISM band in the HF spectrum and nobody will complain either ...