An absolute classic coming-of-age novel from the 1940s, with an irresistible narrator, which fans of contemporary writers such as Meg Rosoff, Rainbow Rowell or E Lockhart will love. Part of the Originals - Penguin's very best modern classics for young adults.
Dorothy 'Dodie' Smith was born in 1896 in Derbyshire and was one of the most successful dramatists of her generation. During the 1940s she lived in the USA and it was homesickness for England that inspired her classic novel I Capture the Castle (1948). It was an immediate success and was also adapted for the stage in the 1950s as well as becoming a successful film in 2003. Dodie Smith is also the author of the much-loved book The Hundred and One Dalmatians, which has famously been twice filmed by Disney. Dodie Smith died in 1990.
Everyone I've passed it on to has found it a hit - it works every
time, for absolutely everybody
*Nigella Lawson*
Every time I meet someone who also loves I Capture the Castle, I
know we must be kindred spirits
*Jenny Han, bestselling author of To All the Boys I've Loved
Before*
I know of few novels that inspire as much fierce lifelong affection
in their readers
*Joanna Trollope*
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