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• A classic and one of my all-time favourites. Cassandra Mortmain is probably my favourite literary heroine. Every thirteen year old girl should read this!

  5.00 out of 5

  Abi78

• This is my all time favorite novel. The story centers around young, Cassandra and follows the lives of her family and neighbors as they struggle to make ends meet, find happiness, and figure out where their lives will take them. The story was written well and I wished that it would never end. The movie, while good, does not do the book justice. I also recommend this as a gift to young women around the 16/17 age as they will find Cassandra highly relateable, despite it's taking place nearly 100 years ago.

  5.00 out of 5

  hannahj26

• I think this might be the most perfect novel of the 20th century.Every time I read this, I am delighted and amazed by things I haven't noticed or focused upon in my countless earlier readings. Even the smallest aspects of the book, the scenes that seem brief or insignificant, are carefully crafted to move the story in the right directions.The plot is straightforward enough on the surface. An English family, living in a converted castle, is sinking deeper into poverty without much hope of a reversal of fortune when a family of wealthy Americans arrives at the neighboring manor. Elder sister Rose makes a desperate play to marry in for their money. The book is narrated by younger sister Cassandra, who is herself caught up in the strangeness and kindness of the Americans, and also worried about their father, a famed writer who is utterly unable to write or support the family. Other characters include Topaz, the quirky stepmother, and Stephen, the "hired" boy who pines for Cassandra's attention.It's interesting to me that over the years as I have reread this novel, I have had different responses to the characters at various times of my own life. At this point, I'm decidedly attached to all of them. Their motivations are not always pure but they are unfailingly understandable. By all rights, several aspects of I Capture the Castle should be hopelessly dated, even shockingly dated ... but I find myself overlooking them with hardly any effort because the overall emotional quality of the story is so easy to get caught up in.

  5.00 out of 5

  delphica

• Another great classic, her first sentence: "I write this sitting in the kitchen sink" has been branded in my mind forever more. What a great story, what a great characters and what a wonderful feeling.

  5.00 out of 5

  Luli81

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