I Capture The Castle Av Dodie Smith

<p><b>''I write this sitting in the kitchen sink...''</b><br><br>This is the story of Cassandra, precocious and charming, who begins a journal detailing her life with her bohemian family in a crumbling old castle. On the cusp of adulthood, Cassandra meets the family''s growing challenges of poverty and decay with indefatigable humour and insight.<br><br>However, her life is turned upside down when the American heirs to the castle arrive and Cassandra finds herself falling in love. Both a gorgeous study of 1930s England and a sharp exposition of what it''s like to be teenage girl, <i>I Capture The Castle </i>is a novel layered with eccentricity and nostalgia.<br><br><b>Meet ten of literature''s most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world.</b></p>