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I Capture the Castle

Dodie Smith

From Shelf: A normal family life?

'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**

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
592
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
ISBN:
9780099572886
Published Date:
2/8/2012
Dimensions:
188mm x 129mm x 35mm
Weight:
384g
Category:
Classic fiction (Children's / Teenage)

RRP: £9.99

Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9780099572886


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