I Capture the Castle

The eccentric Mortmain family have been rattling around in avast, decrepit castle for years, gradually slipping into financial ruin. Mortmain is crippled by writer's block, while his beautiful second wife Topaz struggles to be adutiful stepmother to Rose, Cassandra and Thomas. Rose needs ahusband, 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 aglamorous American family, and the agonies of falling in love for the first time. Awonderfully quirky coming-of-age story, ICapture the Castle by Dodie Smith, author of The Hundred and One Dalmatians is an affectionately drawn portrait of one of the funniest families in literature. This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of ICapture the Castle is illustrated by Ruth Steed, and features an afterword by publisher Anna South. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is aseries of beautiful gift editions of much-loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.