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I Capture the Castle
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I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith 3 stars
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This was written in the 1940s, but set in the 1930s--not quite far enough back for me to call this historical fiction.
Cassandra Mortmain, 17, fills three journals in which she tells this story. She is part of a now-poor, eccentric family who live in a run-down castle her father took a 40 year lease on when he was making money from his first, and only, book.
The writing is fine, but I didn't love it or even enjoy it more than three stars.