I Capture the Castle
Dodie Smith
Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
I Capture the Castle
by Dodie Smith
—· 363 p· 1948
20th Century ClassicLiterary Canonreflective
Overview
About
Cassandra, the 17-year-old narrator, lives an eccentric existence in a crumbling castle in the English countryside in the 1930s. Her father is a former bestselling novelist now suffering from a chronic case of writer's block and her glamorous but bohemian stepmother Topaz is a sometime artist model. Money is in short supply but Cassandra and her discontented older sister Rose are forced to make the best of things - until some young, wealthy American neighbours arrive and Rose sees an opportunity…
Pages
363
Little, Brown Book Group Limited
Linguistic complexity
3/5
Moderate
Thematic complexity
4/5
Rich
Rating
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Reader feel
Narration10
Character Voice10
Prose9
Coming Of Age9
Emotional depth8
Worldbuilding7
Pacing7
Plot twists4
My journey
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