Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4146 in Books
• Published on: 2004-01-31
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages

Entertainment Weekly
Dreamy and funny...an odd, shimmering timelessness clings to its pages. A thousand and one cheers for its reissue. A +.

Los Angeles Times
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

Daily Mail
‘This is a wonderfully charming story of love, sibling rivalry and the eccentricities of bohemian life'

Customer Reviews

Violence against women
I wonder if this is the same book I read?
A fairly interesting book of its time about an unusual family with a sort of hippie attitude. However to recommend this for todays teenage audience is to suggest that it is OK to be emotionally neglectful of your family just because you are some sort of genius is just plain wrong. Even worse the insinuation that a man can be violent because a woman would rather have violence than no attention at all is a very primitive version of a partnership. I threw the book in the bin after reading to the end hoping that the message would improve.

the castle I didn't like
This book is a kind of "Pride and Prejudice "in which Darcy and Bingley don't know which sister they prefer: either Jane or Elizabeth.

Their love affairs seem to depend on pure chance: they don't know their own feelings: is it love, attraction or pure boredom that brought them togother? (I tend to think it's only boredom)

And what about the ending? everything is open. Cassandra is open to anything (I mean again: she was so throught the whole book anyway...)so what's the point?
I was glad to close such a book!!

recommended reading for female from 15 to 90
What a lovely story! I wasn't expecting much because the only thing I knew about Dodi Smith was that she had written 101 Dalmatians -- a children's story. However,I was totally encharnted with this book. It's a delightful read for women of any age and I have bought copies for both my nieces who are 14 and 15 and also recommend it to my mother. It has interesting social history, romance and is beautifully written. What more could you ask for?