I have been just a bit bookish lately. I finished A Meal in Winter (haunting and sad) and was going to start Testament of Youth but, oops, I accidentally bought a little pile of books and I fell into I Capture the Castle instead. From the opening line "I write this sitting in the kitchen sink." I have been swept along to a ramshackle English castle in the 1930s where the Mortmain family are sliding into genteel (but actually horrid) poverty. Narrated by Cassandra Mortmain, a girl on the edge of womanhood, it has been a charming, eccentric and at times hilarious read. I'm half way through and am anxious not to finish it too quickly. That's what I love about books - all so different, all so good.
Lovely book cover illustration by Eden Cooke
Lovely book cover illustration by Eden Cooke
