Dodie Smith

'I write this sitting in the kitchen sink...’ This is the diary of Cassandra Mortmain, which tells of her extraordinary family and their crumbling castle home. Cassandra's father was once a famous writer, but now he mainly reads detective novels while his family slide into genteel poverty. Her sister Rose is bored and beautiful, and desperate to marry riches. Their step-mother Topaz has habit of striding through the countryside wearing only her wellington boots. But all their lives will be soon be transformed by the arrival of new neighbours from America, and Cassandra finds herself falling in love... BACKSTORY: Get to know Dodie Smith, and be inspired to keep your own diary! **One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**

I Capture the Castle

Michelle Mouton

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Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

In addition, I think religion has a chance of a lookin whenever the mind craves solace in music or poetry - in any form of art at all. Personally, I think it is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.

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