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I CAPTURE THE CASTLE
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| By: |
Dodie Smith, Ruth Steed (Illus), Anna South |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£9.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1909621110 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781909621114 |
| Publisher: |
PAN MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
1 April, 2014 |
| Edition: |
Main Market ed |
| Pages: |
448 |
| Description: |
Cassandra Mortmain lives with her Bohemian and impoverished family in a crumbling castle in the middle of nowhere. Her journal records her life with her beautiful, bored sister, Rose, her glamorous stepmother, Topaz, her little brother Thomas and her eccentric novelist father who suffers from a financially crippling writer's block. |
| Synopsis: |
The eccentric Mortmain family have been rattling around in a vast, decrepit castle for years, gradually slipping into financial ruin. Mortmain is crippled by writer's block, while his second wife Topaz - a fading beauty - struggles to be a dutiful stepmother to Rose, Cassandra and Thomas. Rose needs a husband, Thomas an education but Cassandra lives for her writing. Through her gloriously witty and shrewd diaries, she chronicles the trials of family life, the impact on their prospects of the arrival of a glamorous American family and the agonies of falling in love for the first time. Illustrated by Ruth Steed, with an Afterword by Anna South. |
| Illustrations: |
illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Returns: |
Returnable |