Description
| Product ID: | 9780141371504 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | The Originals |
| Title: | I Capture the Castle |
| Authors: | Author: Dodie Smith, Ngadi Smart |
| Page Count: | 544 |
| Subjects: | Children’s / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction, Classic fiction (Children's / Teenage), Interest age: from c 12 years |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating "I write this sitting in the kitchen sink" is the memorable first line of this enchanting coming-of-age story, told in the form of Cassandra Mortmain's journal. 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. This is a classic coming-of-age story, beloved of generations of teenage and adult readers, by Dodie Smith, who also wrote The Hundred and One Dalmatians. "I write this sitting in the kitchen sink" is the memorable first line of this enchanting coming-of-age story, told in the form of Cassandra Mortmain''s journal. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2016-08-04 |
