# I Capture the Castle

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- Book: [I Capture the Castle](https://www.bookquiver.com/dodie-smith/i-capture-the-castle) ([I Capture the Castle.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/dodie-smith/i-capture-the-castle.md))
- Authors: [Dodie Smith](https://www.bookquiver.com/dodie-smith)
- Publisher: bbc_digital_audio
- Medium: audio
- Length: 2 h
- Narrated by: Toby Jones
- ISBN: 978-17-8529-262-0
- Published: 2016-03-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 2 h

## Description

Toby Jones and Holliday Grainger star in a new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Dodie Smith's enduringly popular coming-of-age novel In the 1930s, seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain lives in a crumbling ruin of a castle in the Suffolk countryside. Her father, an author wrestling with writer's block, spends his time reading detective stories; her bohemian stepmother Topaz is an artist's model, and her beautiful older sister Rose is determined to escape the poverty of their existence – ideally by marriage to a rich man. Intelligent and observant, Cassandra chronicles the eccentricities of her relations in her journal, in a bid to capture her family and their lives at the castle. When two rich American brothers, Simon and Neil Cotton, arrive unexpectedly, the family's isolation is disrupted. Rose accepts a marriage proposal from Simon, and as she is whisked off to a world of wealth in London, Cassandra is left to deal with the increasingly bizarre behaviour of her father – as well as her own feelings for Simon... Dodie Smith's charming, funny and poignant love story is a classic of 20th-Century English literature and this sparkling adaptation, starring Toby Jones and Holliday Grainger, will enchant and delight. Duration: 2 hours