I Capture The Castle Dodie Smith

Name: I Capture The Castle By Dodie Smith
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I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith

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Summary

Cassandra Mortmain lives with her bohemian and impoverished family in a crumbling castle in the middle of nowhere. 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.

I Capture The Castle Summary

I Capture The Castle: V and A Promotion by Dodie Smith

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.

I Capture The Castle Reviews

This rite of passage story about a precocious teenager and her eccentric family is romantic, off-beat and totally magical Red I know of few novels that inspire as much fierce lifelong affection in their readers -- Joanna Trollope Everyone I've passed it on to has found it a hit - it works every time, for absolutely everybody -- Nigella Lawson This book has one of the most charismatic narrators I've ever met -- J K Rowling

About Dodie Smith

Dorothy Gladys 'Dodie' Smith was born in 1896 in Lancashire and she was one of the most successful female dramatists of her generation. Her first novel, I Capture the Castle, was written when she lived in America during the 1940's and marked her crossover debut from playwright to novelist. The novel became an immediate success and was produced as a play in 1954. She has written numerous other novels but is best known today for The Hundred and One Dalmatians, a story for younger readers. The Hundred and One Dalmatians became the basis of two Disney films.

Additional information

Sku

GOR003867277

ISBN 13

9780099560968

ISBN 10

0099560968

Title

I Capture The Castle: V and A Promotion by Dodie Smith

Author

Dodie Smith

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Year published

20120301

Number of pages

432

Prizes

N/A

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