Seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain and her family may live in a ramshackle old English castle, but that's about as romantic as her life gets. A beautiful, deluxe edition of Dodie Smith's beloved novel, I Capture the Castle, featuring a new foreword by New York Times bestselling author Jenny Han, a stunning new cover, and designed endpapers that is perfect for devoted readers and those discovering this timeless story for the first time. Rowling, bestselling author of the Harry Potter series Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.'Every time I meet someone who also loves I Capture the Castle, I know we must be kindred spirits.' -from the new foreword by Jenny Han, the New York Times bestselling author of To All the Boys I've Loved Before.

'This book has one of the most charismatic narrators I've ever met.' -J.K. By the time she pens her final entry, she has 'captured the castle' - and the heart of the reader - in one of literature's most enchanting novels. Through Cassandra's sharply funny, yet poignant, journal entries, she chronicles the great changes that take place within the castle's walls, and her own first descent into love. Until one day when their new landlords move in, which include two (very handsome) sons, and the lives of the Mortmain sisters change forever. So Cassandra instead strives to hone her writing skills in her journals.

While her beautiful older sister, Rose, longs to live in a Jane Austen novel, Cassandra knows that meeting an eligible man to marry isn't in either of their futures when their home is crumbling and they have to sell their furniture for food. 'Every time I meet someone who also loves I Capture the Castle, I know we must be kindred spirits.' -from the new foreword by Jenny Han, the New York Times bestselling author of To All the Boys I've Loved Before.

I capture the castle deluxe edition