'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...主人公、17岁的英国女孩卡珊朵拉是一个有着美丽长发的忧郁女孩,她一直坚持写作,梦想着有一天能成为作家。她和家人住在一座破旧的城堡内,在当地被看作怪人,过着几乎是与世隔绝的生活。然而,困顿的生活、消沉的父亲并没有阻挡她的成长和快乐。卡珊朵拉用日记体记述了自己和家人在一个废弃城堡中的日子。“或许是因为城堡激发了我写作的欲望,或许仅仅就是个巧合。”不管怎样,故事结尾时的卡珊朵拉开心多了。家庭命运的演变,初恋的浪漫情怀,这样的故事对每一个情窦初开的男孩女孩都具有强大的吸引力。
【作者简介】
Dorothy Gladys 'Dodie' Smith was born in 1896 in Lancashire and she was one of the most successful female dramatists of her generation. Her first novel, I Capture the Castle, was written when she lived in America during the 1940's and marked her crossover debut from playwright to novelist. The novel became an immediate success and was produced as a play in 1954. She has written numerous other novels but is best known today for The Hundred and One Dalmatians, a story for younger readers. The Hundred and One Dalmatians became the basis of two Disney films. (20030402)
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