WHAT I TREASURE

My copy of I Capture the Castle

By Maria Thompson

I've never been keen on ‘coming of age' novels (after all, who wants to relive that awkward teenage phase again?), so when my mum gave my younger self a copy of I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith I discarded it as tedious nonsense some 30 pages in. It was a surprise then that when I next took the book from the shelf several years later, I devoured it in a matter of days. On turning the last page, I felt that sensation that only comes from finishing a good book, a sense of sadness, as if a friend has just left and you're not quite sure what to do next. Narrated by the intelligent and witty Cassandra, the story is set in a crumbling castle in 1930s Suffolk where she…

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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2023

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