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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 fadingly 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...
ISBN: | 9780099460879 |
Publication date: | 31st January 2004 |
Author: | Dodie Smith, Valerie Grove |
Publisher: | Vintage Classics an imprint of Vintage |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 407 pages |
Series: | Vintage Classics |
Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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