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I write this sitting at the kitchen sink' is the first line of a novel about love, sibling rivalry and a bohemian existence in a crumbling castle in the middle of nowhere. Cassandra Mortmin's journal records her fadingly glamorous stepmother, her beautiful, wistful older sister and the man to whom they owe both their isolation and poverty - Father. The author of one experimental novel, and a minor cause celebre, he has since suffered from writer's block and is determined to drag his family down with him. But if the iron has entered Father's soul it hasn't penetrated Cassandra's ...
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This book has one of the most charismatic narrators I've ever met (J.K. Rowling)
A delicious, compulsively readable novel about young love and its vicissitudes. What fun! (Erica Jong)
Much more fun than the reader has any right to expect (THE WEEKLY STANDARD)
Dreamy and funny...an odd, shimmering timelessness clings to its pages. A thousand and one cheers for its reissue. A + (ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY)
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A delicious, compulsively readable novel about young love and its vicissitudes. What fun! (Erica Jong)
Much more fun than the reader has any right to expect (THE WEEKLY STANDARD)
Dreamy and funny...an odd, shimmering timelessness clings to its pages. A thousand and one cheers for its reissue. A + (ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY)
I Capture the Castle has inspired writers as diverse as Armistead Maupin and Joanna Trollope and remains a classic tale of the triumph of youthful naivety over middle-aged cynicism.
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- PublisherVirago
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 1844080218
- ISBN 13 9781844080212
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