I Capture the Castle is Dodie Smith's first novel, and was published in 1948. Smith, who wrote the novel during a sojourn in America, was already an established playwright and later became famous for authoring the children's classic The Hundred and One Dalmatians. I Capture the Castle relates the adventures of an eccentric family, the Mortmains, struggling to live in a decaying English castle in the 1930s. The novel, narrated by an intelligent teen-aged girl, Cassandra Mortmain, is cast in the form of her journal. A play based on the book appeared in 1954, and Heidi Thomas adapted a screenplay based on the novel for Tim Fywell's 2003 film version. Plot summary The Mortmain family is very poor, but very interesting. Cassandra's father, a writer, suffers from writer's block and has not published anything since his first hit book, Jacob Wrestling. More than ten years before, he took out a forty-year's

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