To view prices and purchase online, please login or create an account now.



I Capture The Castle

CD-Audio

Main Details

Title I Capture The Castle
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Dodie Smith
Read by Emilia Fox
Physical Properties
Format:CD-Audio
Dimensions(mm): Height 150,Width 130
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9781901768879
ClassificationsDewey:823.912
Audience
General
Edition Main

Publishing Details

Publisher Canongate Books Ltd
Imprint CSA WORD
Publication Date 17 April 2008
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This is the wonderful journal of Cassandra Mortmain, aged 17. A heartwarming and completely original coming-of-age story, it is the account of one year in her life and that of her extraordinary family. With great wit and sensitivity Cassandra reveals her eccentric father with writer's block, her clever younger brother Tom, and eldest sister Rose, beautiful, bored, and mainly interested in marrying a rich man. Then there is their stepmother Topaz, a rather exotic artist's model, and Stephen who works for the family and is hopelessly in love with Cassandra. When two young American men, Simon and Neil, arrive to live nearby, the lives of this intimate community are changed forever. Cassandra records the events in her diary from the crumbling castle, which is their home. The result is marvellously funny and genuinely moving. Emilia Fox the narrator, is one of Britain's best-loved television and radio actors, and star of Silent Witness.

Author Biography

Dodie Smith (1896-1990) was an English novelist and playwright, best known for One Hundred and One Dalmatians.

Reviews

* An excellent offering from CSA Word to be enjoyed by all the family. The Disability Times * I know of few novels - except Pride and Prejudice - 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 * I think it is a book that will be very much lived in by many people; because you can live in it, like Dickens Christopher Isherwood