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September 04, 2008
I Capture the Castle
(Originally published by Nattie on August 6, 2004)
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith is an endearing and engaging story. It is told by 17-year-old Cassandra, a budding writer, who tries to "capture" her life on paper in three journals.
Cassandra lives in a rundown castle in England during the 1930s with her writer father, her stepmother Topaz, her older sister Rose, her younger brother Thomas and a hired hand Stephen. They are on the brink of poverty when the story opens.
Rose longs for an easier life and claims she will do anything to get it. Enter two American brothers who've inherited the next door estate. Rose aims to get the oldest boy, Simon, to ask her to marry him. But feelings get complicated and confused leaving Cassandra, Stephen, Neil— Simon's younger brother, Simon and Rose playing a game that no one seems to know the rules to.
Also going on is the wonder if their father will ever write again, his first book having been published 12 years before. By the end of the story Cassandra has managed to capture the castle as only she can.
It makes me wish I could live in poverty in a rundown castle. The book is a classic and will be added to my list of all-time favorites.
Copyright Natalie Rose York
Posted by Nattie's Daddy at September 4, 2008 08:32 AM
Comments
THANK YOU for posting this again. I have given this book to Heather in Nattie's memory, but I could not ever remember if Nattie had read it or not.
Posted by: Pattie at October 9, 2008 09:43 PM
YAY! It was a beautiful book. A very Nattie book.
Posted by: Heather at October 10, 2008 11:40 AM