Through her gloriously witty and shrewd diaries, she chronicles the trials of family life, the impact on their prospects of the arrival of a glamorous American family, and the agonies of falling in love for the first time. An original hand-lettered design of the opening lines from Dodie Smiths inspirational classic I Capture the Castle: I write this sitting in the kitchen. Rose needs a husband, Thomas an education but Cassandra lives for her writing. I Capture the Castle is the first novel of English author Dodie Smith, written during the Second World War when she and her husband Alec Beesley, an English. Mortmain is crippled by writer’s block, while his beautiful second wife Topaz struggles to be a dutiful stepmother to Rose, Cassandra and Thomas. The eccentric Mortmain family have been rattling around in a vast, decrepit castle for years, gradually slipping into financial ruin. This edition is illustrated by Ruth Steed, and features an afterword by publisher Anna South. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. She fills three notebooks with sharply funny yet poignant entries. Here she strives, over six turbulent months, to hone her writing skills. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. Adapted to a feature film in 2003, I Capture the Castle tells the story of seventeen-year-old Cassandra and her family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle. One of BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World.Ī wonderfully quirky coming-of-age story, I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith, author of The Hundred and One Dalmatians is an affectionately drawn portrait of one of the funniest families in literature.
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