'I write this sitting in the kitchen sink...¿This is the diary of Cassandra Mortmain, which tells of her extraordinary family and their crumbling castle home. Cassandra's father was once a famous writer, but now he mainly reads detective...

The eccentric Mortmain family have been rattling around in a vast, decrepit castle for years, gradually slipping into financial ruin. Mortmain is crippled by writer's block, while his beautiful second wife Topaz struggles to be a dutiful...

A hundred and one dalmatians and more! This bumper Modern Classic edition includes the original Hundred and One Dalmatians and Dodie Smith's sequel, Starlight Barking.Cruella de Vil is enough to frighten the spots off a Dalmatian puppy....

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...

'I write this sitting in the kitchen sink...'This is the story of Cassandra, precocious and charming, who begins a journal detailing her life with her bohemian family in a crumbling old castle. On the cusp of adulthood, Cassandra meets...

"I Capture the Castle" von Dodie Smith ist ein Coming-of-Age-Roman, der in den 1930er Jahren in England spielt. Die Geschichte wird aus der Perspektive der 17-jährigen Cassandra Mortmain erzählt, die in einem verfallenen Schloss mit...