Entertainment Weekly
Dreamy and funny...an odd, shimmering timelessness clings to its pages. A thousand and one cheers for its reissue. A +.
Los Angeles Times
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
Daily Mail
‘This is a wonderfully charming story of love, sibling rivalry and the eccentricities of bohemian life'
Sunday Tribune
‘Influential and much loved novel’
City life (Manchester)
‘I experienced that rare moment in reading: an absolute identification with the character’
J.K. Rowling
This book has one of the most charismatic narrators I've ever met
Erica Jong
A delicious, compulsively readable novel about young love and its vicissitudes. What fun!
The Weekly Standard
Much more fun than the reader has any right to expect
Donald Westlake
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
J.K. ROWLING
'This book has one of the most charismatic narrators I've ever met'
Guardian
‘A good story, flourishing characters, and the most persuasive narrative voice’
THE WEEKLY STANDARD
'Much more fun than the reader has any right to expect'
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
'Dreamy and funny...an odd, shimmering timelessness clings to its pages. A thousand and one cheers for its reissue. A +'
Good Book Guide
'A classic tale of the triumph of youthful naivety over middle-aged cynicism'
Oxford Times
‘Classic coming of age novel’
Product Description
When the Mortmain family move into a ruinous castle, they don't really see why everyone regards them as profoundly eccentric. Then the American heirs to the castle turn up - energetic mother and her two eligible young sons. The stage is set for a romantic comedy.
From the Back Cover
This is the journal of Cassandra Mortmain; an extraordinary account of life with her extraordinary family. First, there is her eccentric father. Then there is her sister, Rose - beautiful, vain and bored - and her stepmother, Topaz, an artist's model who likes to commune with nature. Finally, there is Stephen, dazzlingly handsome and hopelessly in love with Cassandra.
In the cold and crumbling castle which is their home, Cassandra records events with characteristic honesty, as she tries to come to terms with her own feelings. The result is both marvellously funny and genuinely moving.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.About the Author
Dodie Smith was born in Manchester in 1896. The author of the famous THE HUNDRED AND ONE DALMATIANS, she died in 1990.
--This text refers to an alternate
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