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Thanks for signing up! Check your inbox for a welcome email. Email address required. First Name. Last Name. Family patriarch, Mortmain Bill Nighy , packs his young family off to a picturesque castle in Suffolk. As he struggles to write his second novel, his family soon struggles with isolation and poverty. The girls are sure they are trapped forever in the castle they thought wonderful and romantic when they moved in years before, but all that changes when two American men inherit their home.
He is her way out of the trapped existence that has been crushing her. Rose and Cassandra scheme to get Simon to propose, and the romance is joined. As is expected with castles and young ladies, romance rules the day. While she is game for true love, it is not as valuable to her as her escape from poverty. Add your rating See all 3 parent reviews. Add your rating See all 3 kid reviews. Cassie and her family moved to the castle and adjacent Belmotte Tower when her father was at the height of his writing success; since then their circumstances have been considerably reduced.
With most of the furniture sold, the shabbiest of clothes, and barely enough to eat, Cassie wonders in the pages of her journal how anything will ever change. Enter Simon and Neil Cotton, the rich American young men who have recently taken up residency in nearby Scoatney Hall.
Cassie herself notes the similarity to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and wonders if an advantageous match might be made for her older sister Rose. More important, however, the new neighbors give Cassie something to write about, and Cassie's journal is the platform that lets readers get to know the charming narrator and her eccentric family.
Although Cassie will seem naive compared to a modern year-old, her innocence is understandable given the time period and the isolation in which she was brought up she states at one point that she knows no girls except her sister, her stepmother, and characters from books. Not what you'd call an action-packed novel, I Capture the Castle is nevertheless beautifully paced, with just the right mixture of introspection and action that moves the plot forward.
Families can talk about why I Capture the Castle is considered a lost classic. Why do some older books still resonate with today's young readers? Cassie loved her home. What do you think best part about living in a castle be?
What would the worst part be? Not only did Cassie live in a time before computers and cell phones, the castle had no electricity! How would you pass the time if you lived in that situation? When the Americans come to visit, it makes Cassie look at England differently, though she's always lived there.
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