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I Capture the Castle
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  • Published: 31 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446467145
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 432

I Capture the Castle

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation

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Paperback
18 Jan 2022
Paperback
1 Aug 2012
Paperback
1 Apr 2004
Hardback
20 Dec 2023
EBook
31 Aug 2011
Audiobook
3 Mar 2016
Paperback
23 May 2023
Paperback
30 Jan 2017
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'This book has one of the most charismatic narrators I've ever met' J K Rowling

'This book has one of the most charismatic narrators I've ever met' J K Rowling

'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

**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**
  • Published: 31 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446467145
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 432
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Praise for I Capture the Castle

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

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

Nigella Lawson

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

Joanna Trollope

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

Katy Guest, The Independent