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I Capture the Castle

Dodie Smith

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Nov 09, 2014 Kerry rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: about-a-woman, audiobook, audible, poverty, about-a-girl, being_english

Maaan, I really really liked this!

First of all, it's about very poor people who live in a castle in England. And the narrator isn't too despairing about it. So that's fun. And there's a big deal made about a guy's beard. (An American, for that matter.) The different characters verge on being caricatures, but don't quite make it there, in my opinion, so that's good too. (Like Topaz! At first I thought I was going to hate her but I ended up adoring her.)

I like Jane Austen and it's kind of like a J ...more

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Aug 31, 2008 Cindy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult, fiction, romance, book-club

Cassandra and her family live in a large, rather decrepit house built out of the remains of a castle. She and her family - sister Rose, brother Thomas, stepmother Topaz, father, and friend/servant Stephen - are all falling into decay along with the building. They have lived on the remains of her father's career as a writer, but for years he has written nothing else, and now the royalties have stopped coming in. Then a new family moves into the estate next door.

The new heir is an American, Simon, ...more

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