It’s difficult not to trust and root for Cassandra, whose first person narration of events is written with charm, humor, and often painful honesty. I credit this novel’s ability to grab and hold the reader’s attention to the clear, witty, genuine narrative voice through which this story is told. I ended up reading all four hundred pages before I was even a third of the way through my flight (it’s a good thing I brought a second book with me just in case!). Usually while waiting around I have a tendency to just listen to music instead of actually focusing on reading however, I was completely captivated by I Capture the Castle right from the start. It was a gift from a few friends (thanks, friends!) so I was eager to read it on their recommendation. I read this entire novel between the hours of six and ten in the morning while waiting for and boarding my plane from Oxford to my home in the States. Straddling issues of class, gender, and cultural differences, I Capture the Castle is an engrossing tale that will capture you from the very first page.
Everything changes one fateful day when two American brothers arrive at the castle and inevitably fall in love with Cassandra and her sister, Rose. The novel is narrated by seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain, a budding writer who chronicles her life in several witty, entertaining journals. Set in a castle past its prime in Suffolk, England during the year 1934, Dodie Smith’s enduring novel I Capture the Castle tells the story of a poverty-stricken family struggling to make it by.
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