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 fading 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 know of few novels that inspire as much fierce lifelong affection in their readers' Joanna Trollope
**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099460879
Number of pages: 432
Weight: 301 g
Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 27 mm
I know of few novels that inspire as much fierce lifelong affection in their readers
Everyone I've passed it on to has found it a hit - it works every time, for absolutely everybody
Smith rivals Nancy Mitford's Love in a Cold Climate series for 1930s toff charm - The Independent
A deliciously evocative portrait of England - Daily Mail
Dreamy and funny...an odd, shimmering timelessness clings to its pages. A thousand and one cheers for its reissue. A + - Entertainment Weekly
It is an occasion worth celebrating when a sparkling novel, a work of wit, irony and feeling is brought back into print after an absence of many years. So uncork the champagne for I Capture the Castle - Los Angeles Times
This rite of passage story about a precocious teenager and her eccentric family is romantic, off-beat and totally magical - Red
Influential and much loved novel - Sunday Tribune
Much more fun than the reader has any right to expect - Weekly Standard
It's as fresh as if it were written this morning and as classic as Jane Austen. I'm very happy to have met it
Cassandra is a seventeen year old girl who lives with her family in a decaying castle. With little money Cassandra spends most of her time observing the lives of those around her and capturing the daily life in the... More
This is a lovely book; quite deserving of its place in the hearts of many of its readers and its status as a classic. It does have some slap-worthy characters but is probably the better for that. A very enjoyable read.
This is the second time I have read this book, I think everytime you read it you find a new meaning and something that you can resonate with.
It is beautifully written and such a clever, innocent and brutally honest...
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