I Capture the Castle

I know of few novels that inspire as much fierce lifelong affection in their readers

Joanna Trollope

Everyone I've passed it on to has found it a hit - it works every time, for absolutely everybody

Nigella Lawson

Smith rivals Nancy Mitford's Love in a Cold Climate series for 1930s toff charm

Katy Guest, The Independent

A deliciously evocative portrait of England

Tasmina Perry, 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

Donald Westlake

A good story, flourishing characters, and the most persuasive narrative voice

Guardian

A classic tale of the triumph of youthful naivety over middle-aged cynicism

Good Book Guide

Classic coming of age novel

Oxford Times

I know of few novels that inspire as much fierce lifelong affection in their readers

Joanna Trollope

Everyone I've passed it on to has found it a hit - it works every time, for absolutely everybody

Nigella Lawson

Smith rivals Nancy Mitford's Love in a Cold Climate series for 1930s toff charm

Katy Guest, The Independent

A deliciously evocative portrait of England

Tasmina Perry, Daily Mail

Dreamy and funny...an odd, shimmering timelessness clings to its pages. A thousand and one cheers for its reissue. A +

Entertainment Weekly