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ASIN: 0099460874
ID #112397
Product Type: Book
Reviewer: Fran 🌈🧜‍♀️ Author Icon
Review Rated: E
Amazon's Price: $ 10.24
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Summary of this Book...
Cassandra Mortmain lives with her bohemian and impoverished family in a crumbling castle in the middle of nowhere. Her journal records her life with her beautiful, bored sister, Rose, her fadingly glamorous stepmother, Topaz, her little brother Thomas and her eccentric novelist father who suffers from a financially crippling writer's block. However, all their lives are turned upside down when the American heirs to the castle arrive and Cassandra finds herself falling in love for the first time.
This type of Book is good for...
Literary demons
I especially liked...
'I write this sitting in the kitchen sink' is the excellent first line of this book - it made me smile.
I didn't like...
It got a little convoluted in the middle, with lots of characters moving through the pages.
The author of this Book...
Dorothy Gladys 'Dodie' Smith was born in 1896 in Lancashire and she was one of the most successful female dramatists of her generation. Her first novel, I Capture the Castle, was written when she lived in America during the 1940's and marked her crossover debut from playwright to novelist. The novel became an immediate success and was produced as a play in 1954. She has written numerous other novels but is best known today for The Hundred and One Dalmatians, a story for younger readers. The Hundred and One Dalmatians became the basis of two Disney Films.
I recommend this Book because...
It's a classic novel that everyone should have on their reading list.
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