I Capture the Castle

"I write this sitting in the kitchen sink" is the memorable first line of this enchanting coming-of-age story, told in the form of Cassandra Mortmain's journal. Cassandra wittily describes life growing up in a crumbling castle, with her father who suffers from crippling writer's block, her glamorous but ineffectual step-mother and her vain but beloved sister Rose. When two visiting Americans arrive, all of their lives are turned upside down, and Cassandra experiences her first love.

This is a classic coming-of-age story, beloved of generations of teenage and adult readers, by Dodie Smith, who also wrote The Hundred and One Dalmatians.

• Author
• Dodie Smith

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 544

• Series
• The Originals

• Publisher
• Penguin

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-14-137150-4

• EAN
• 9780141371504

• Release date
• 2016