This classic novel might be 70 years old, but its soul-soothing powers haven’t faded Cassandra Mortmain, heroine of Dodie Smith’s novel I Capture The Castle, is an unfussy, practical girl with ...

I Capture the Castle is set in the 1930s but was written during World War Two while author Dodie Smith was living in America. Smith wrote the book as a way of capturing her nostalgia for the happy ...