I Capture the Castle

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Rebel Voices- Disruptive Stories from Trailblazing Women - a new Puffin Classics collection, celebrating International Women's Day 2023 Seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain and her family live in a beautiful, ramshackle castle - but sadly that's not quite as exciting as it sounds when you're having to use the barn door as a kitchen table, and new clothes are literally made out of old curtains . . . Determined to forge her own path, Cassandra practices her writing skills by keeping a diary - observing the eccentric comings and goings of her beloved-but exasperating family, and pondering what life may have in store for her. But things are about to get delightfully more dramatic with the arrival of two glamorous Americans - and soon the Mortmain's lives will never be the same again.

Dorothy 'Dodie' Smith was born in 1896 in Derbyshire and was one of the most successful dramatists of her generation. She is perhaps best known for her story The Hundred and One Dalmatians.

I know of few novels that inspire as much fierce lifelong affection in their readers * Joanna Trollope * Every time I meet someone who also loves I Capture the Castle, I know we must be kindred spirits * Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before *