![]() ![]() ![]() James Mortmain used the proceeds to rent the castle but since he hasn’t written anything for the last twelve years, the coffers are empty. So we get to know her father who once enjoyed international fame as the author of an experimental novel. Through her journals, she “captures” the people around her as practice for the novel she aspires to write. I Capture The Castle depicts eight months in the lives of the eccentric Mortmain family as seen by the youngest daughter, 17-year-old Cassandra. Many readers seemingly found Smith’s novel of two sisters and their crumbling castle home an endearingly charming tale but I’m not one of them. At number 82 in the list of 200 novels chosen for The Big Read, Dodie Smith’s debut work ranked higher than Dracula, Jude the Obscure and The Handmaid’s Tale.Ī few years earlier the BBC commissioned a panel of six writers and critics to choose 100 English language novels “that have had an impact on their lives”, I Capture The Castle was listed in the “family and friendship” category alongside George Eliot’s Middlemarch and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte. In 2003, the British public voted I Capture The Castle one of the best loved novels of all time. ![]()
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