I Capture the Castle
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:2nd Aug '12
Should be back in stock very soon
The universally adored story of Cassandra Mortmain, her mad family, her loves and her heartaches. A perfect novel.
'I write this sitting in the kitchen sink...’
This is the diary of Cassandra Mortmain, which tells of her extraordinary family and their crumbling castle home.
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**
There are many good reasons to read Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle: it provides excellent advice about dressing on a budget (dye all your clothes sea-green); how to cope when the man you love falls for your elder sister (keep a diary) and your stepmother dances naked in the rain (ditto). Given that most teenagers believe their parents to be mad - and vice versa - the novel also serves as a helpful guide to recognising the fine line between eccentricity and outright insanity * Guardian *
A book for anyone who is young, poor, fed up and yearning for something exciting to happen * Irish Times *
When I read I Capture the Castle it immediately became one of my favourite novels of all time, and I was very annoyed that nobody had told me about it before -- J.K Rowling
Unputdownable and loved by teenagers and adults everywhere. * Observer *
Everyone I've passed it on to has found it a hit - it works every time, for absolutely everybody -- Nigella Lawson
ISBN: 9780099572886
Dimensions: 188mm x 129mm x 35mm
Weight: 384g
592 pages