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

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

Classic fiction: general and literary Romance

Authors: Dodie Smith, Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Language: English

Published by: Vintage Digital

Published on: 29th February 2012

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 1 Mb

ISBN: 9781448130580


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.

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