My rating: 5/5
I’d read this when I was eighteen or so and forgotten all about it. On re-reading it for book club, I adore it! I Capture the Castle is very close to a perfect novel. The setting captured my heart as much as the characters, and it reads like a love letter to England as well as to youth. Full of almost-magic and eccentricities, Cassandra teeters between childhood and adulthood as the family teeters between being more and being ruined, and her father between genius and madness. Practicality and romanticism dance and embrace in the most charming way. A glorious read to be savoured.
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