I capture the castle

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.

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A beautiful hardback edition of one of the funny, heartbreaking, iconic coming-of-age novel.

'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: Bound to be beautiful

Additional information

Weight 467 g
Dimensions 204 × 138 × 38 mm
Author

Publisher

Vintage Classics

Imprint

Vintage Classics

Cover

Hardback

Pages

xvi, 407

Language

English

Edition

|Reprint

Dewey

823.912 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K