![]() ‘There are many good reasons to read Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle: it provides excellent advice about dressing on a budget (dye all your clothes sea-green) how to cope when the man you love falls for your elder sister (keep a diary) and your stepmother dances naked in the rain (ditto). However, their lives are thrown into confusion when the American heirs to the castle arrive and Cassandra finds herself falling in love for the first time. ![]() In her journal, she records her life with her beautiful, bored sister, Rose, her glamorous stepmother Topaz, her little brother Thomas and her eccentric novelist father who suffers from writer’s block. ![]() ‘I write this sitting in the kitchen sink’ is the first line of I Capture the Castle, a timeless, witty and enchanting novel by Dodie Smith about growing up.Ĭassandra Mortmain lives with her bohemian, impoverished family in a crumbling castle in the middle of nowhere. ![]()
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