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41 of 43 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An absorbing, must-have book for any advanced teenage reader, 17 Mar 2002
Dodie Smith is world renowned for writing 101 Dalmatians and The Starlight Barking, but her deep and expressive writing talent is revealed in I Capture The Castle, which was written in 1949 and is set in 1930s Britain. I think that you can tell if a book is good or not, by whether it has that magical touch- you're suddenly jolted back to life and you realise that you were there, that you were a spectator on this world of fiction. I Capture The Castle indeed has this rare power, and I longed for little snippets of time in which I could let myself be transported through the pages of this creation. As you read you can smell the smells, speak the words, and feel the atmosphere. You get to know the characters, and you start to discover their natures through the narrative. The book is a set of three diaries written by the seventeen year old character of Cassandra Mortmain, expressing her perspective on her slightly eccentric family, life, and love. Her family consists of her father who is a writer and is portrayed as being mad, her step-mother, Topaz, who models for nude paintings and communes with nature, and her elder twenty-one year old sister Rose, who is beautiful but unfortunately vain and bored with her life. Lastly there is Stephen Colly, a gardener-boy who has, in effect, been adopted into the family, and who is madly in love with Cassandra. The reason that I chose this book for my review is that it is so captivating. It is a book that is simply impossible to put down and leaves you feeling that you want to start all over again and re-live the story.
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