Everyone I've passed it on to has found it a hit - it works every time, for absolutely everybody

Every time I meet someone who also loves I Capture the Castle, I know we must be kindred spirits

I know of few novels that inspire as much fierce lifelong affection in their readers

Fierce and dark . . . A superb offering

Lada – so ugly and mean that readers will adore her – stubbornly rejects gender roles . . . and the characters . . . benefit from complex motivations and an unconventional love triangle. Addictive intrigue

Shakespeare is the best thing that ever happened to this country

Shakespeare modernised the form of the sonnet, and transformed it from a stylised, courtly love shtick to a fluent and flexible form that could turn itself to any subject