- Fiction, Castles, Fiction, family life, Fiction, coming of age
Cassandra, the 17-year-old narrator, lives an eccentric existence in a crumbling castle in the English countryside in the 1930s. Her father is a former bestselling novelist now suffering from a chronic case of writer's block and her glamorous but bohemian stepmother Topaz is a sometime artist model.
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- warmbleak
- effortlessdemanding
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Dodie Smith
- First published
- 1948
- Pages
- 363
- Publisher
- Red Fox, Reprint Society, Bodley Head
- Editions
- 78
- Language
- French, und, heb, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780370307824
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On Open Library, 17 have read it and 151 want to.
“I WRITE THIS sitting in the kitchen sink.”
Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith was an English children's novelist and playwright, known best for the novel 'The Hundred and One Dalmatians'.
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