I Capture the Castle

Why we like it

One of those novels that inspires instant recognition among people who love books. Seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain records life with her wonderfully eccentric family in a crumbling English castle—poverty, writer’s block, unsuitable romances and all. Funny, romantic and beautifully observed, it has the irresistible feeling of discovering a favorite book you somehow missed.

Details

• By Dodie Smith
• Foreword by Jenny Han
• Deluxe hardcover edition
• 400 pages
• Classic coming-of-age novel told through Cassandra’s journals
• Set in a ramshackle English castle
• Originally published in 1948