I Capture the Castle

I Capture the Castle

by Dodie Smith

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Cassandra, the 17-year-old narrator, lives an eccentric existence in a crumbling castle in the English countryside in the 1930s. Her father is a former bestselling novelist now suffering from a chronic case of writer's block and her glamorous but bohemian stepmother Topaz is a sometime artist model. Money is in short supply but Cassandra and her discontented older sister Rose are forced to make the best of things - until some young, wealthy American neighbours arrive and Rose sees an opportunity

ISBN: 9780241618059

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"A really lovely book about the importance of art and understanding the world."

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"This book has one of the most charismatic narrators I've ever met."