I Capture the Castle - Vintage Quarterbound Classics

A beautiful hardback edition of one of the most gorgeous, funny and heartbreaking novels ever written. ''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 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 ''This book has one of the most charismatic narrators I''ve ever met'' J. K. Rowling **One of the BBC''s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World** VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS: Beautiful editions of great books to last a lifetime

Product details

• Authors: Dodie Smith
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 12 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.10.2023
• EAN: 9781784878702
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-870-2
• No. of pages: 407
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 205 mm x 35 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics Hardbacks; Vintage Quarterbound Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Emotions & Feelings, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Classics, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, Interest age: from c 12 years, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Poverty & Homelessness, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Romance and love stories