The head of the Mortmain family is Cassandra Mortmain's father, a writer suffering from writer's block who has not published anything since his first book, a hit entitled, Jacob Wresstling. The narrator is Cassandra Mortmain, an intelligent 17 year old who tells the story via her personal diaries. This coming-of-age novel recounts in the first person the adventures of an eccentric family, the Mortmains, struggling to live in a decaying English castle during the 1930s. Smith was already an established playwright and later became famous for authoring the children's classic The Hundred and One Dalmatians. I Capture the Castle is Dodie Smith's first novel, written in 1949 while living in USA.
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