I Capture The Castle (Vintage Children's Classics)

Author: Dodie Smith

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  • : 16.99 AUD
  • : 9780099572886
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Vintage Children's Classics
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  • : January 2012
  • : 188mm X 129mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 16.99
  • : July 2012
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  • : Dodie Smith
  • : Paperback
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Barcode 9780099572886
9780099572886

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"'I write this sitting in the kitchen sink..." This is the diary of Cassandra Mortmain, which tells of her extraordinary family and their crumbling castle home. Cassandra's father was once a famous writer, but now he mainly reads detective novels while his family slide into genteel poverty. Her sister Rose is bored and beautiful, and desperate to marry riches. Their step-mother Topaz has habit of striding through the countryside wearing only her wellington boots. But all their lives will be soon be transformed by the arrival of new neighbours from America, and Cassandra finds herself falling in love... 

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'When I read I Capture the Castle it immediately became one of my favourite novels of all time, and I was very annoyed that nobody had told me about it before' J.K Rowling