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  I Capture the Castle (Vintage Classics) (Paperback) By (author) Dodie Smith, Introduction by Valerie Grove

  

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  Short Description for I Capture the CastleCassandra Mortmain lives with her impoverished family in a crumbling castle. Her journal records her life with her bored sister Rose, her stepmother Topaz, her little brother Thomas and her novelist father who suffers from a financially crippling writer's block. However, all their lives are turned upside down when American heirs to castle arrive.
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  • Publisher: VINTAGE
  • Published: 31 January 2004
  • Format: Paperback 432 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780099460879 ISBN 10: 0099460874
  • Sales rank: 7,341

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Full description for I Capture the Castle

• 'I write this sitting in the kitchen sink' is the first line of this timeless, witty and enchanting novel about growing up. 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...