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I CAPTURE THE CASTLE
'I write this sitting in the kitchen sink' is the first line of this timeless, witty and enchanting novel about growing up.
Cassandra Mortmain lives with her bohemian and impoverished family in a crumbling castle in the middle of nowhere, Her journal records her life with her beautiful, bored sister, Rose, her fadingly glamorous stepmother, Topaz, her little brother Thomas and her eccentric novelist father who suffers from a financially crippling writer's block.
However, all their lives are turned upside down when the American heirs to the castle arrive and Cassandra finds herself falling in love for the first time.
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THE SECRET GARDEN
Mary Lennox is an orphan who is sent to live with her uncle at gloomy Misselthwaite Manor, Neglected and lonely, she begins to explore her new home and learns of a secret garden that her uncle has forbidden anyone to enter.
A friendly robin shows Mary the key to the garden and she discovers a world she could never have imagined, . . The Secret Garden has enchanted generations of children and adults alike, Born Dorothy Gladys Smith in Lancashire, England, Dodie Smith was raised in Manchester her memoir is titled A Childhood in Manchester, She was just an infant when her father died, and she grew up fatherless until age, when her mother remarried and the family moved to London.
There she studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and tried for a career as an

actress, but with little success, She finally wound up taking a job as a toy buyer for a furniture store to make ends meet, Giving up dreams of an acting career, she turned to writing plays, and inher first play, Autumn Crocus, was published under the pseudonym “C.
L. Anthony”. It was a success, and her story from failed actress to furniture store employee to successful wr Born Dorothy Gladys Smith in Lancashire, England, Dodie Smith was raised in Manchester her memoir is titled A Childhood in Manchester.
She was just an infant when her father died, and she grew up fatherless until age, when her mother remarried and the family moved to London.
There she studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and tried for a career as an actress, but with little success, She finally wound up taking a job as a toy buyer for a furniture store to make ends meet, Giving up dreams of an acting career, she turned to writing plays, and inher first play, Autumn Crocus, was published under the pseudonym “C.
L. Anthony”. It was a success, and her story from failed actress to furniture store employee to successful writer captured the imagination of the public and she was featured in papers all over the country.
Although she could now afford to move to a London townhouse, she didn't get caught up in the “literary” scene she married a man who was a fellow employee at the furniture store.
During World War II she and her husband moved to the United States, mostly because of his stand as a conscientious objector and the social and legal difficulties that entailed.
She was still homesick for England, though, as reflected in her first novel, I Capture the Castle, During her stay she formed close friendships with such authors as Christopher Isherwood and John Van Druten, and was aided in her literary endeavors by writer A.
J. Cronin. She is perhaps best known for her novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians, a hugely popular childrens book that has been made into a string of very successful animated films by Walt Disney.
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