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I Capture the Castle
Dodie Smith
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Description for I Capture the Castle
paperback. Series: The Originals. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: 5AN; YFA. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 131 x 197 x 42. Weight in Grams: 382.
"I write this sitting in the kitchen sink" is the memorable first line of this enchanting coming-of-age story, told in the form of Cassandra Mortmain's journal. Cassandra wittily describes life growing up in a crumbling castle, with her father who suffers from crippling writer's block, her glamorous but ineffectual step-mother and her vain but beloved sister Rose. When two visiting Americans arrive, all of their lives are turned upside down, and Cassandra experiences her first love.
This is a classic coming-of-age story, beloved of generations of teenage and adult readers, by Dodie Smith, who also wrote The Hundred ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Penguin Random House Children´s UK
Condition
New
Series
The Originals
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141371504
SKU
9780141371504
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99-1
About Dodie Smith
Dorothy 'Dodie' Smith was born in 1896 in Derbyshire and was one of the most successful dramatists of her generation. During the 1940s she lived in the USA and it was homesickness for England that inspired her classic novel I Capture the Castle (1948). It was an immediate success and was also adapted for the stage in the 1950s as ... Read more
Reviews for I Capture the Castle
Everyone I've passed it on to has found it a hit - it works every time, for absolutely everybody
Nigella Lawson
Every time I meet someone who also loves I Capture the Castle, I know we must be kindred spirits
Jenny Han, bestselling author of To All the Boys I've Loved Before
I know of few ... Read more
Nigella Lawson
Every time I meet someone who also loves I Capture the Castle, I know we must be kindred spirits
Jenny Han, bestselling author of To All the Boys I've Loved Before
I know of few ... Read more