I Capture the Castle

I know of few novels that inspire as much fierce lifelong affection in their readersEveryone I’ve passed it on to has found it a hit - it works every time, for absolutely everybodySmith rivals Nancy Mitford’s Love in a Cold Climate series for 1930s toff charm * The Independent *A deliciously evocative portrait of England * Daily Mail *Dreamy and funny…an odd, shimmering timelessness clings to its pages. A thousand and one cheers for its reissue. A + * Entertainment Weekly *It is an occasion worth celebrating when a sparkling novel, a work of wit, irony and feeling is brought back into print after an absence of many years. So uncork the champagne for I Capture the Castle * Los Angeles Times *This rite of passage story about a precocious teenager and her eccentric family is romantic, off-beat and totally magical * Red *Influential and much loved novel * Sunday Tribune *Much more fun than the reader has any right to expect * Weekly Standard *It’s as fresh as if it were written this morning and as classic as Jane Austen. I’m very happy to have met it

Dorothy Gladys ‘Dodie’ Smith was born in 1896 in Lancashire and was one of the most successful female dramatists of her generation. Her first novel, I Capture the Castle, was written when she lived in America during the 1940s and marked her crossover debut from playwright to novelist. The novel became an immediate success and was produced as a play in 1954. She has written numerous other novels but is best known today for The Hundred and One Dalmatians, a story for younger readers. The Hundred and One Dalmatians became the basis of two Disney films.

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