“I thank heaven there is no cheaper form of bread than bread,” Cassandra writes. The owner took a liking to them and saved them loaves to pick up at the end of the day. At one point she and my grandfather were so poor they couldn’t afford bread from the corner bakery. I imagine my grandmother, twenty-four, on the precipice of marriage, feeling certain her life would take the opposite trajectory-she was headed from rags to riches. Cassandra eventually takes on the emotionally grueling task of trying to save their family from destitution.

But as the money dwindles, so does her father’s inspiration, confidence, and kindness. Cassandra’s father wrote one successful novel, the proceeds of which have supported them for years.

But I’d like to think it was that she loved the book so much she wanted to share it with me, to deepen the bond between us.“I Capture the Castle” is a riches-to-rags story in the form of a diary-that of Cassandra Mortmain, a teenage girl who lives with her beautiful sister, stormy father, and flighty stepmother in a decaying castle in the English countryside. I’m not actually sure she ever read the book. So uncork the champagne for I Capture the Castle.I always tell people my grandmother introduced me to “I Capture the Castle.” “It was her favorite book,” I’d say, “and I was her favorite grandchild.” The latter is how she’d drunkenly introduced me at my cousin’s first wedding. “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. Ever since I was handed a tattered copy years ago with the recommendation 'You'll love it,' it has been one of my favorite novels.” -Susan Isaacs It should be welcomed with a bouquet of roses and a brass band. “I Capture the Castle is finally back in print. A thousand and one cheers for its reissue. an odd, shimmering timelessness clings to its pages. “A delicious, compulsively readable novel about young love and its vicissitudes. I'm very happy to have met it.” -Donald E. It's as fresh as if it were written this morning, and as classic as Jane Austen. “What a lovely book is I Capture the Castle. Seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain captures the castle in her insightful, witty journal entries.” -Harry Potter author J. “This book has one of the most charismatic narrators I've ever met.

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