I Capture the Castle
A beautiful coming-of-age novel about first love
Dodie Smith author Valerie Grove editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:5th Feb '04
Should be back in stock very soon
'This book has one of the most charismatic narrators I've ever met' J K Rowling
Cassandra Mortmain lives with her impoverished family in a crumbling castle. Her journal records her life with her bored sister Rose, her stepmother Topaz, her little brother Thomas and her novelist father who suffers from a financially crippling writer's block. However, all their lives are turned upside down when American heirs to castle arrive.
Cassandra Mortmain lives with her bohemian and impoverished family in a crumbling castle in the middle of nowhere.
Her journal records her life with her beautiful, bored sister, Rose, her fading glamorous stepmother, Topaz, her little brother Thomas, and her eccentric novelist father who suffers from a financially crippling writer's block.
However, all their lives are turned upside down when the American heirs to the castle arrive and Cassandra finds herself falling in love for the first time.
'I know of few novels that inspire as much fierce lifelong affection in their readers' Joanna Trollope
**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**
I know of few novels that inspire as much fierce lifelong affection in their readers
Everyone I've passed it on to has found it a hit - it works every time, for absolutely everybody
Smith rivals Nancy Mitford's Love in a Cold Climate series for 1930s toff charm * The Independent *
A deliciously evocative portrait of England * Daily Mail *
Dreamy and funny...an odd, shimmering timelessness clings to its pages. A thousand and one cheers for its reissue. A + * Entertainment Weekly *
It is an occasion worth celebrating when a sparkling novel, a work of wit, irony and feeling is brought back into print after an absence of many years. So uncork the champagne for I Capture the Castle * Los Angeles Times *
This rite of passage story about a precocious teenager and her eccentric family is romantic, off-beat and totally magical * Red *
Influential and much loved novel * Sunday Tribune *
Much more fun than the reader has any right to expect * Weekly Standard *
It's as fresh as if it were written this morning and as classic as Jane Austen. I'm very happy to have met it
ISBN: 9780099460879
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 26mm
Weight: 298g
432 pages