January 2015 Guest Editor Harriet Evans on I Capture the Castle...
This is probably my favourite novel. It gives something new every time I reread it. At first it’s ‘just’ a story of a deliciously eccentric family living in a crumbling castle in a beautiful English village (and that’d be quite enough for me!) but it’s so much more than that. It’s about broken families, class, England before the war, and most importantly and daringly it’s about a young girl’s burgeoning sexuality.
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.
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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.
I Capture the Castle features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Family Drama, eBooks of the Month, Classic fiction: general and literary, General Fiction, Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Recommendations
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I Capture the Castle was written by Dodie Smith and published by Vintage Classic an imprint of Random House
I Capture the Castle has 410 pages
Yes it is part of Vintage Classics series
