I Capture the Castle

<p><strong>'I write this sitting in the kitchen sink...'</strong><br /><br />This is the story of Cassandra, precocious and charming, who begins a journal detailing her life with her bohemian family in a crumbling old castle. On the cusp of adulthood, Cassandra meets the family's growing challenges of poverty and decay with indefatigable humour and insight.<br /><br />However, her life is turned upside down when the American heirs to the castle arrive and Cassandra finds herself falling in love. Both a gorgeous study of 1930s England and a sharp exposition of what it's like to be teenage girl, <em>I Capture The Castle </em>is a novel layered with eccentricity and nostalgia.<br /><br /><strong>Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world.</strong></p>