I Capture the Castle

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

Wow can I say Amazing!! This book was so good it took me like a week to read because like it was written like almost 60 years ago so you have to think about the language not only because it is a little old but also because it takes place in England. This book is about this girl named Cassandra her beautiful sister named Rose, Her eccentric stepmother Topaz, Her wash-out dad who hasn't written a book in more than 15 years, her smart little brother Thomas, and Stephen the son of their old maid, who just stayed after his mother passed away. About 10 pages into the book Neil and Simon Cotton show up they are the sons of the man who owns the castle that Cassandra and her Family (plus Stephen) live in. They come and soon after Rose and Simon are engaged and Cassandre realises that she is in love with stephen and wants to know if Rose is in love with him because she knows that Rose wants to marry him because he has money and Cassandra and Fam. live in total poverty. At the end of the book Rose and Niel run away together and Cassandra is still left crushing on Simon. This is a really good book I think that everyone should read it.