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I, Capture the Castle Dodie Smith, is set in the 1930s and follows the adventures of the Mortmain family living in genteel poverty in a decaying castle. It is narrated by Cassandra Mortmain, who tells the story through her journal. Cassandra’s eccentric father is a writer whose first book took the literary world by storm but he has sincs failed to write a single word and now spends most of his time reading detective novels from the village library. Cassandra’s elder sister, Rose – exquisitely beautiful, vain and bored – despairs of her family’s circumstances and determines to marry their affluent American landlord, Simon regardelss of the fact she does not love him. She is in turns helped and hindered in this by their bohemian stepmother Topaz, an artist’s model and nudist who likes to commune with nature. Fianlly there is Stephen, dazzlingly hands…
Photoby Pakorn Praikheaw
