This wonderful novel tells the story of seventeen-year-old Cassandra and her family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle. Here she strives, over six turbulent months, to hone her writing skills.
She fills three notebooks with sharply funny yet poignant entries. Her journals candidly chronicle the great changes that take place within the castle's walls, and her own first descent into love. By the time she pens her final entry, she has captures the heart of the reader in one of literature's most enchanting entertainments.
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Cassandra Mortmain is seventeen, and, in her attempts to be a writer, has started a diary. She has plenty of material in the lives her unconventional family members as they struggle to make ends meet in the old, crumbling castle where they live in rural 1930s England. When the wealthy Cotton brothers arrive, Americans and owners of the castle, Cassandra’s elder sister Rose sees a way out of the family’s enduring poverty. I Capture the Castle is a heartfelt, beautiful coming of age novel. It has a wonderful cast of characters, and a kind, funny, and clever protagonist in Cassandra. - Madeleine (QBD)
Guest, 16/03/2017
