Stop What You’re Doing and Read…To Your Daughter: I Capture the Castle & The Secret Garden

Oct 2, 2024 10:36 PM

Author:Dodie Smith,Frances Hodgson Burnett

To mark the publication of Stop What You're Doing and Read This!, a collection of essays celebrating reading, Vintage Classics are releasing 12 limited edition themed ebook 'bundles', to tempt readers to discover and rediscover great books.

I CAPTURE THE CASTLE

'I write this sitting in the kitchen sink' is the first line of this timeless, witty and enchanting novel about growing up. Cassandra Mortmain lives with her bohemian and impoverished family in a crumbling castle in the middle of nowhere. Her journal records her life with her beautiful, bored sister, Rose, her fadingly glamorous stepmother, Topaz, her little brother Thomas and her eccentric novelist father who suffers from a financially crippling writer's block. However, all their lives are turned upside down when the American heirs to the castle arrive and Cassandra finds herself falling in love for the first time...

THE SECRET GARDEN

Mary Lennox is an orphan who is sent to live with her uncle at gloomy Misselthwaite Manor. Neglected and lonely, she begins to explore her new home and learns of a secret garden that her uncle has forbidden anyone to enter. A friendly robin shows Mary the key to the garden and she discovers a world she could never have imagined... The Secret Garden has enchanted generations of children and adults alike.

Reviews

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

—— Nigella Lawson

THE SECRET GARDEN - Mary is a tough feisty character, who manages to turn a whole household, and the lives of those in it, completely upside down... The book is brim full of magic and joy

—— Sunday Telegraph

One sexy book! it was enjoyable and funny and - did I mention - sexy. Very much so. This is a nice and easy, feel-good, sit-back-and-relax book. I'd like to read the rest of the series. Hopefully it's just as sexy, witty and funny like this one

—— Ivana Maric , Willing To See Less

If you like saucy chick lit with lots of sexual tension this is for you!

—— Chick Lit Central

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